This site is an expanded and significantly upgraded version of the Flickr Commons based tool I wrote several years ago. As well as a major design/UX overhaul, it now includes data from further providers such as those available through Europeana, and also the Imperial War Museum. I'd welcome further suggestions as the harvesting tool and database are easily extendable.
For information, questions and bug reports please contact James Morley @jamesinealing | james@jamesmorley.net
The data has been harvested from providers using some custom php scripts to query respective APIs based on dates. Data is harmonised and stored in a local mySql database.
Additional jQuery plugins are used to enhance the display, including Masonry and Bootstrap Image Gallery (based on blueimp).
The code is openly licensed so please feel free to copy, modify, distribute as you please. It will be shared on Github shortly!
Acting Serjeant Alphonso Mellor 49382, The Cheshire Regiment
Died 3 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Corporal Chemist Sydney Reuben Hall 183827, Royal Engineers
Died 3 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Lance Sergeant Ernest Middleton 5115 or 201718. Unit: 7th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 03 October 1916 Missing Western Front
Died 3 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Alfred Thomas Eaves , Royal West Surrey Regiment
Died 3 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Andrew Ernest Sutherland , Royal Field Artillery, 211 (A) Bty, 67th Brigade
Died 3 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Frederic Prockter. Unit: 7th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 03 October 1916 Western Front
Died 3 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Arthur Goldthorpe 17850, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
Died 3 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Arthur Goldthorpe 17850. Unit: Machine Gun Section, 10th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment). Death: 3 October 1916, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 3 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Arthur Owen Rees PS/9849, Royal Fusiliers (City Of London Regiment)
Died 3 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles G Roberts 4882, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 3 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Robert Charles Alfred Lambert G/15841, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 3 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Robert Edward Hill 16489, Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 3 October 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Samuel Williamson 27145, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 3 October 1916
Lives of the First World War