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!
Captain Alfred Ernest Parker. Unit: 3rd Battalion, The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) attached to 2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders (Rossshire Buffs, The Duke of Albany’s). Death: 07 November 1914 Western Front
Died 7 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Arnold Stearns Nesbitt MID. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Death: 07 November 1914 Killed in action at Ploegsteert Western Front
Died 7 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Edmund Basil Chichester. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment). Death: 07 November 1914 Died of wounds Western Front. Son of Maj. and Mrs. Newton Chichester.
Died 7 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Eric John Western Dolphin. Unit: 1st Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. Death: 07 November 1914 Killed in action near Ploegsteert “treacherously shot by the Germans after they had called out ‘don't shoot'†Western Front.
Died 7 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain John Franks Vallentin VC, MID. Unit: 1st Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. Death: 07 November 1914 At Zillebeke Western Front
Died 7 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Kenneth Forbes-Robertson. Unit: 1st Battalion, attached to the 2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders. Death: 7 November 1914, killed in action while leading a reconnoitring party in Ploegsteert Wood, Western Front.
Died 7 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Lionel Alfred Francis Cane. Unit: 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment. Death: 07 November 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 7 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Richard Alexander Noel Smyth MID. Unit: 5th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 07 November 1914 Died of wounds received in action at Armentieres, France Western Front
Died 7 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Charles Roderick Haigh. Unit: Adjutant, 2nd Battalion, the Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Death: 7 November 1914, killed in action, Western Front.
Died 7 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant John Beauclerk Vandeleur. Unit: Durham Light Infantry; Leicestershire Regiment; 3rd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Death: 07 November 1914 Western Front
Died 7 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Reginald Nigel Gipps. Unit: 1st Battalion Scots Guards. Death: 7 November 1914, killed in action near Ypres, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 7 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Richard Crawhall Walton. Unit: 1st Battalion, 9th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army. Death: 07 November 1914 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 7 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Richard Crawhill Walton. Unit: 1st Battalion, 9th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army. Death: 07 November 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 7 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Robert Denis Stewart Harding. Unit: 4th Battalion, attached to the 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Death: 7 November 1914, killed in action near Ypres, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 7 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Herbert Arthur Herbert-Stepney. Unit: 1st Battalion, Irish Guards. Death: 07 November 1914 Killed in action near Ypres Western Front
Died 7 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Robert Edward Rising DSO MID. Unit: 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Death: 07 November 1914 At Ypres Western Front
Died 7 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Gillachrist Moore. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment. Death: 07 November 1914 Near Klein Zillebeke Western Front
Died 7 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Jesse Marson Atkin. Unit: Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment), attached to 3rd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Death: 7 November 1914.
Died 7 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Murray Stuart Pound. Unit: Special Reserve, attached to 1st Battalion, The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Death: 07 November 1914 Western Front
Died 7 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Sydney Alexander Goldsmid. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Death: 7 November 1914, near Ypres - whilst holding a trench that the Germans rushed during a fog, Western Front.
Died 7 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Private William Arthur Dowley. Unit: D Company, 23rd Battalion, 6th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 07 November 1916 Killed in action Western Front.
Died 7 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Frederick Walter Straw. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 14th Battalion, York & Lancaster Regiment. Death: 07 November 1916 Wounded and Missing in action Western Front
Died 7 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Gunner Charles Edward Alderton 10133. Unit: 18th Battery, 6th Brigade, Australian Field Artillery, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 07 November 1917 France Western Front
Died 7 November 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant (Later Captain) Eric Denison Seymour Casswell. Unit: 6th Battalion, Rifle Brigade, attached to 102nd Squadron, Royal Flying Corps (Observer). Death: 07 November 1917 Missing in action Western Front
Died 7 November 1917
Imperial War Museum
Sergeant Stephen J Booth 3011. Unit: B Company, 1st Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 07 November 1917 near Flers Western Front
Died 7 November 1917
Imperial War Museum
Chaplain 4th Class The Reverend William Gerard Cheese. Unit: Army Chaplains' Department, attached to 8th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Death: 07 November 1918 Rouen Western Front
Died 7 November 1918
Imperial War Museum
Mabel Elizabeth Smith, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of pneumonia 07 November 1918.
Died 7 November 1918
Imperial War Museum
Mabel Elizabeth Smith, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of pneumonia 07 November 1918.
Died 7 November 1918
Imperial War Museum