This site is an expanded and significantly upgraded version of the Flickr Commons based tool I created several years ago. As well as a major design/UX overhaul, it now includes data from further providers (see full list below). 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
Current totals by data source
Current totals by date accuracy
Breakdown of institutional data retrieved through Europeana
Het Nationaal Glasmuseum - 22336 items; Sjöhistoriska museet - 11809 items; Bohusläns museum - 7936 items; Vänersborgs museum - 7561 items; Kulturarv Västernorrland - 4090 items; Rijksmuseum - 3241 items; Tekniska museet - 2444 items; Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden - 2317 items; Karlsborgs fästningsmuseum - 2007 items; Miliseum - 1287 items; Örebro läns museum - 1254 items; Flygvapenmuseum - 1058 items; ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen - 1042 items; Marinmuseum - 735 items; Skansen - 629 items; Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - 579 items; Riksantikvarieämbetet - 381 items; Stiftelsen Nordiska museet - 288 items; Historisch Museum Ede - 254 items; Stedelijk Museum Zutphen - 221 items; Ajuntament de Girona - 106 items; CODA Museum - 103 items; INP - National Heritage Institute, Bucharest - 103 items; Upplandsmuseet - 102 items; The Archaeological Heritage Agency of Iceland - 95 items; Aaltense Musea - 58 items; Stadsmuseum Harderwijk - 56 items; Sundsvalls museum - 50 items; National library of Montenegro "Đurđe Crnojević" - 44 items; Länsmuseet Gävleborg - 37 items; Nederlands Openluchtmuseum - 31 items; Vasamuseet - 28 items; Images of Old Cluj - 27 items; Nederlands Tegelmuseum - 20 items; Postmuseum - 18 items; Δήμος Τρίπολης - 11 items; Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem - 9 items; Cluj County Library - 9 items; Slovak National Library - 8 items; Csorba Győző Könyvtár - Pécs - 7 items; Stadskasteel Zaltbommel - 7 items; Stichting Liemers Museum - 6 items; Lietuvos dailės muziejus - 4 items; Žemaičių muziejus „Alka“ / Samogitian Museum "Alka" - 3 items; Deventer Musea - 3 items; NOC*NSF - 3 items; Nationalmuseum, Sweden - 2 items; Wikimedia Commons Community - 2 items; Lietuvos švietimo istorijos muziejus / Museum of Lithuanian Education History - 2 items; Rippl-Rónai Megyei Hatókörű Városi Múzeum - Kaposvár - 2 items; Museum Elburg - 1 items; National Library of Bulgaria - 1 items; Horniman Museum and Gardens - 1 items; jNederlands Openluchtmuseum - 1 items; Lietuvos dailės muziejus / Lithuanian Art Museum - 1 items; Kauno IX forto muziejus / Kaunas 9th Fort Museum - 1 items; A. Baranausko ir A. Vienuolio-Žukausko memorialinis muziejus / Antanas Baranauskas and Antanas Vienuolis-Žukauskas Memorial Museum - 1 items; Slot Loevestein - 1 items; Museon - 1 items
Breakdown of institutional data retrieved through Flickr Commons
The U.S. National Archives - 1730 items; The Library of Congress - 1093 items; SMU Libraries Digital Collections - 1038 items; State Library and Archives of Florida - 912 items; State Library of Queensland, Australia - 891 items; Cornell University Library - 840 items; bibliothequedetoulouse - 821 items; Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons - 567 items; Swedish National Heritage Board - 559 items; National Library of Ireland on The Commons - 494 items; State Library of New South Wales collection - 402 items; Vestfoldmuseene | Vestfold Museums - 385 items; MissouriStateArchives - 371 items; National Library of Australia Commons - 295 items; NASA on The Commons - 262 items; Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums - 249 items; National Library of Norway - 229 items; Royal Australian Historical Society - 216 items; Deseronto Archives - 183 items; Provincial Archives of Alberta - 177 items; Powerhouse Museum Collection - 170 items; UW Digital Collections - 123 items; National Library NZ on The Commons - 123 items; UA Archives | Upper Arlington History - 114 items; National Library of Scotland - 105 items; Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest - 89 items; Australian War Memorial collection - 88 items; Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons - 78 items; National Archives of Estonia - 67 items; Museum of Photographic Arts Collections - 64 items; Stockholm Transport Museum Commons - 61 items; Liberas / Liberaal Archief - 59 items; National Museum of Denmark - 55 items; Costică Acsinte Archive - 49 items; The Gallen-Kallela Museum - 46 items; Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle - 46 items; Museum of Hartlepool - 45 items; George Eastman Museum - 33 items; San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives - 32 items; The National Archives UK - 31 items; tyrrellhistoricallibrary - 29 items; Preus museum - 27 items; Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane - 21 items; OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons - 21 items; The Finnish Museum of Photography - 20 items; National Science and Media Museum - 17 items; Schlesinger Library, RIAS, Harvard University - 9 items; Huron County Museum & Historic Gaol - 7 items; Smithsonian Institution - 4 items; Getty Research Institute - 4 items; Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland - 4 items; The British Library - 2 items; Camden Public Library (Maine) - 2 items; Center for Jewish History, NYC - 1 items; Kalamazoo Public Library - 1 items; Aalto University Library and Archive Commons - 1 items;
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 website code and generated data is openly licensed so please feel free to copy, modify, distribute as you please (subject to any restrictions as imposed by the content and toolset providers).
Warrant Officer Class 2 William Kirkwood Cairns 98, Royal Highlanders Blackwatch
Died 31 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
2/Lt Reginald Herbert Secretan , Hertfordshire Regiment
Died 31 July 1917
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Acting Serjeant Thomas Brander 2273, Seaforth Highlanders
Died 31 July 1917
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Captain Brevet Sir John Swinnerton Dyer, M.C. , Scots Guards
Died 31 July 1917
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Captain Cameron Roy Carruthers , Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Died 31 July 1917
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Captain Charles Luker Awbery MC. Unit: 4th Battalion, Essex Regiment. Death: 31 July 1917 St Julien Western Front
Died 31 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Captain Eric Belfield. Unit: 4th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 31 July 1917
Died 31 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Captain Henry Charles Willders-Lewis , Royal West Surrey Regiment
Died 31 July 1917
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Captain Hubert Chronnell MC. Unit: 1st/5th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Death: 31 July 1917 Killed in action at StJean near Ypres Western Front
Died 31 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Captain John Swinnerton Dyer MC. Unit: 1st Battalion, Scots Guards, attached as Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General (DAQMG) to Guards Division. Death: 31 July 1917 Western Front.
Died 31 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Captain Leslie William Fox , King's (Liverpool Regiment)
Died 31 July 1917
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Captain Ronald Newton Caws MC. Unit: Adjutant, 10th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Death: 31 July 1917 Killed in action Western Front
Died 31 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Captain Thomas Geoffery Rawstorne. Unit: 1st/1st Lancashire Hussars. Death: 31 July 1917 Western Front
Died 31 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Captain Willders-Lewis was educated at Croydon High School and University of London. He was a member of Surrey County Cricket Club. On the outbreak of War in 1914, he enlisted in the University and Public Schools Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers and was
Died 31 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Chief Steward Charles De Sousa , Mercantile Marine, SS Belgian Prince
Died 31 July 1917
Lives of the First World War
Commemoration note written by daughter and wife of Rifleman Clarence Edward Bolton 42458. Unit: 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. Death: 31st July 1917 at Ypres, Western Front, age 31.
Note reads: "In neverdying memory of our precious hero Daddy. Ypres
Died 31 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Company Quarter Master Sergeant James Fletcher 200388, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 31 July 1917
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Corporal James Llewellyn Davies VC , Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 31 July 1917
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Corporal Edward Kingsford Radley 15156, Somerset Light Infantry
Died 31 July 1917
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Corporal Francis Henry Corp 89992, Royal Field Artillery
Died 31 July 1917
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Corporal Frederic George Bee 23787, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 31 July 1917
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Corporal John Thomas Armstrong 35601, King's (Liverpool Regiment)
Died 31 July 1917
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Corporal Leslie Edward Lawrence 13956, Duke Of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment)
Died 31 July 1917
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Corporal Thomas Hughes McClintock 136224, Royal Engineers
Died 31 July 1917
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Driver J E Lusted 169120. Unit: Enlisted in 5th Battalion, Sussex Regiment, then Royal Field Artillery. Death: 31 July 1917
Died 31 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Driver James Edward Lusted 169120, Royal Field Artillery
Died 31 July 1917
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Driver Reginald Blythe Day L/5121, Royal Field Artillery
Died 31 July 1917
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Driver William Baxter Roberts 701699, Royal Field Artillery
Died 31 July 1917
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First Lieutenant Robert Nelson Jones , Machine Gun Corps
Died 31 July 1917
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Gunner Frederick William Hill 124708, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 31 July 1917
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Gunner Leonard Conrad Joe Reubinson 291683, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 31 July 1917
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Lance Corporal Alfred Herbert Draper G/1235, Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
Died 31 July 1917
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Lance Corporal Arthur Briggs Travis 24825, Grenadier Guards
Died 31 July 1917
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Lance Corporal Arthur Strand 56166, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 31 July 1917
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Lance Corporal Cecil Ashworth 54520, 16th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 31 July 1917
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Lance Corporal Charles Cyril Staplee 47257, Royal Fusiliers
Died 31 July 1917
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Lance Corporal Ernest Kunzi 25782. Unit: 10th Platoon, C Company, 14th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. Death: 31 July 1917, Western Front.
Died 31 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Francis Edward Ledwidge 16138, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Died 31 July 1917
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Lance Corporal Frederick James Milne S/17025, Gordon Highlanders
Died 31 July 1917
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Lance Corporal Frederick James Milne S/17025. Unit: C Company, 8th/10th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Death: 31 July 1917 Missing Western Front
Died 31 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Gavin Watson McArthur s/30548. Unit: D Coy, 7th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders. Death: 31 July 1917 Western Front
Died 31 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Harold Beardsley 41020, Manchester Regiment
Died 31 July 1917
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Lance Corporal Harry Holborn 7232. Unit: 5th Platoon, "B" Company, 2nd Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 31 July 1917, killed in action, Western Front.
Died 31 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Joseph Beckett R/16646, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 31 July 1917
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Lance Corporal Louis Thompson 18738, Manchester Regiment
Died 31 July 1917
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Lance Corporal Thomas Stevenson 22636, Grenadier Guards
Died 31 July 1917
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Lance Corporal Walter Hewitt 48517, Manchester Regiment
Died 31 July 1917
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Lance Serjeant Arthur Whitman 265227, Hertfordshire Regiment
Died 31 July 1917
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Lance Serjeant Ralph Picton Daniel 22121, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 31 July 1917
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Lieutenant Acting Captain George Clark Percy , Scottish Rifles
Died 31 July 1917
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Lieutenant Albert Edward Keppel MID. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Death: 31 July 1917 Western Front.
Died 31 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Alfred John Bush. Unit: D Company, 2nd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Death: 31 July 1917. Son of Alfred W. and Alice M. Bush, of "Albrian," View Rd., Highgate, London.
Died 31 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Algernon Stuart Edwards , Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 31 July 1917
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Lieutenant and Adjutant Reginald Andrews , Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 31 July 1917
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Lieutenant Colonel Edgar Robert Mobbs, DSO , Northamptonshire Regiment
Died 31 July 1917
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Lieutenant Colonel James Cosmo Russell, D.S.O. , 9th Hodson's Horse
Died 31 July 1917
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Lieutenant Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones , Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Died 31 July 1917
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Lieutenant John Gray Waldie , Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Died 31 July 1917
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Lieutenant John Gray Waldie. Unit: 11th Battalion, Royal Highlanders (Black Watch) and Machine Gun Corps. Death: 31 July 1917 Killed in Action on Westhoek Ridge Western Front
Died 31 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant John Keith Falconer , Hampshire Yeomanry (Carabiniers)
Died 31 July 1917
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Lieutenant John Stephen Grantham White , Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 31 July 1917
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Lieutenant Jonathan Bourn , North Staffordshire Regiment
Died 31 July 1917
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Lieutenant Percival William Corderoy Northcroft , Rifle Brigade
Died 31 July 1917
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Lieutenant Robert Harnett Hayes. Unit: 4th Battalion, Connaught Rangers, attached to the Leinster Regiment. Death: 31 July 1917 to 1 August 1917, missing in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 31 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant The Hon. Albert Edward George Arnold Keppel , Rifle Brigade
Died 31 July 1917
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Lieutenant William Edward Taylor , Royal Field Artillery
Died 31 July 1917
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Major Alan Robert Constantine Jenks MC. Unit: 61st Field Company, Royal Engineers. Death: 31 July 1917 Western Front
Died 31 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Major Alan Robert Constantine Jenks, M.C. , Royal Engineers 61st Field Company
Died 31 July 1917
Lives of the First World War
Monsieur Oudin, père, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 11 144
31 juillet 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Mrs Elizabeth Walsh, Munitions work. Died of TNT poisoning 31 July 1917.
Died 31 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Munitions Worker Dorothy Mary Watson , Ministry of Munitions - Pembrey Munitions Factory, Llanelli
Died 31 July 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Albert Arthur Thomas Brockwell 531436, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 31 July 1917
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