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).
THE DEPLOYMENT OF THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE TO FRANCE, AUGUST-OCTOBER 1914
8 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain D Digges Latouche. Unit: 8th (Service) Battalion, The Welsh Regiment (Pioneers). Death: 08 August 1915 Missing on Chinuk Bair Gallipoli / Dardanelles
Died 8 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Corporal Albert Read Cubitt 839. Unit: G Company, 14th Battalion, 4th Australian Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 08 August 1915 Killed in action Gallipoli
Died 8 August 1915
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Corporal George William Greengrass 1434. Unit: 7th Platoon, 2nd Company, 14th Battalion, 4th Brigade, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 8 August 1915, Lone Pine, Gallipoli, Dardanelles. Commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial.
Died 8 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Arthur Norman Tetley 304. Unit: DTroop, BSquadron, 8th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 08 August 1915 Gallipoli/Dardanelles
Died 8 August 1915
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Lieutenant Kenneth Curlewis. Unit: 14th Battalion, 4th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 08 August 1915 Killed in action Gallipoli
Died 8 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Reginald William Foster. Unit: 6th Reinforcements, 15th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 8 August 1915, Lone Pine, Gallipoli, Dardanelles.
Died 8 August 1915
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Private Edward James Melling 2190. Unit: 6th Reinforcements, 5th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 08 August 1915 Gallipoli
Died 8 August 1915
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Private Hainsworth King 239. Unit: A Company, 7th Battalion, 2nd Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 08 August 1915 Gallipoli, Dardanelles. Son of William and Amelia King, of 74, Tinning St., Brunswick, Victoria, Australia.
Died 8 August 1915
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Private Jack Conlen 1326. Unit: 7th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 08 August 1915 Killed in action Gallipoli
Died 8 August 1915
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Private Jack Edwards 2205. Unit: 7th Battalion, 2nd Infantry Brigade, Australian Infantry, 6th Reinforcements, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 08 August 1915 Lone Pine Gallipoli Dardanelles.
Died 8 August 1915
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Private John Auguste Emile Harris 2251. Unit: "D" Company, 2nd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 8 August 1915, killed in action at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, Dardanelles. Aged 15 years and 10 months.
Died 8 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Norman Wakefield Folks 531. Unit: "D" Company, 14th Battalion, 4th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 8 August 1915, Lone Pine, missing in action, Lone Pine, Gallipoli, Dardanelles.
Died 8 August 1915
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Private Walter Sydney Emery 2127. Unit: 2nd Battalion, 1st Brigade, Australian Infantry, 6th Reinforcements, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 08 August 1915 Lone Pine Gallipoli Dardanelles.
Died 8 August 1915
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Second Lieutenant Arthur Lionel Gibson. Unit: 1st/7th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment). Death: 08 August 1915, Ypres, Western Front.
Died 8 August 1915
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Trooper William Blake 372. Unit: 10th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 08 August 1915 Lone Pine Dardanelles
Died 8 August 1915
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Corporal Benjamin Atkinson Kirkby 3582/201062. Unit: 1st/4th Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment). Death: 08 August 1916 wounded and missing, Western Front.
Died 8 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Corporal Norman Hill 200640. Unit: 1st/4th Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment). Death: 8 August 1916, missing in action, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 8 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Leo J Miles 35373. Unit: 1st Battalion, King’s Liverpool Regiment. Death: 08 August 1916 Missing Western Front
Died 8 August 1916
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Lance Corporal Ronald Armstrong Reid 4412. Unit: D Company, 15th Battalion, 4th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 08 August 1916 Wounded and Missing in action Western Front
Died 8 August 1916
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Lieutenant Colonel John Plunkett Verney Hawksley DSO. Unit: 135th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, 4th Division, attached to the 110th Brigade, 32nd Division. Death: 8 August 1916, killed in action, Somme, Western Front.
Died 8 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lt Tisdall, a former Classics Scholar of Bedford and Peterhouse College, Cambridge, was commanding B Company when he was reported missing, aged 23, at Guillemont on 8 August 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial
Died 8 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Arnold Locke Beattie 3778. Unit: 9th Reinforcements, 18th Battalion, attached to the 20th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 8 August 1916, Pozieres, Somme, Western Front.
Died 8 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Eric Lang 5129. Unit: 48th Battalion, 12th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 08 August 1916 Western Front
Died 8 August 1916
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Private James Ernest Beaney. Unit: Army Cyclist Corps, attached to D Company, 6th Battalion, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment), 12th Division. Death: 08 August 1916, Somme, Western Front.
Died 8 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private John Charles Michael 1700. Unit: 24th Battalion, 6th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 08 August 1916 Western Front
Died 8 August 1916
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Private Owen McManus 5425. Unit: 45th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 08 August 1916 Western Front
Died 8 August 1916
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Private Samuel Oliver 3478. Unit: 8th Platoon, B Company, 1st/4th King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Death: 08 August 1916 Western Front
Died 8 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant Douglas Osmond Evans. Unit: 1st Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment). Death: 08 August 1916 missing in action Somme.
Died 8 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant Gordon MacGregor Hughes. Unit: 9th Battalion, attached to the 5th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment. Death: 8 August 1916, wounded and missing in action, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 8 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant William Edward Mills. Unit: 4th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment. Death: 8 August 1916, Trones Wood, Western Front.
Died 8 August 1916
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Captain Lionel Robert McDougall MID. Unit: 2nd Battalion, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Death: 08 August 1917 Killed at Holnon St Quentin Western Front
Died 8 August 1917
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Chaplain 4th Class Frank Robert Harbord. Unit: Army Chaplains' Department, attached to the Royal Field Artillery within the 25th Division Chaplain's Depot. Death: 8 August 1917, killed in action, Western Front.
Died 8 August 1917
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HMS Dunraven, VC, In Action against the Submarine that Sank Her, 8th August 1917
8 August 1917
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Lieutenant Gerald Arthur Hervey. Unit: 1st/1st Wessex Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 8 August 1917, killed in action, Western Front.
Died 8 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Sergeant Wallace Alexander Henderson 16/963. Unit: 16th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 8 August 1917, wounded and missing in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Nieuport Memorial.
Died 8 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
'Springbok' Reis Naar Het Vasteland ['Springbok' Travel to the Continent]
8 August 1918
Imperial War Museum
Captain Norman Howard A. Wetmore MID. Unit: 25th Battalion, Nova Scotia Regiment, Canadian Expeditionary Force. Death: 08 August 1918 killed in action, Western Front.
Died 8 August 1918
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Captain William MacIlwraith Cameron. Unit: 26th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 08 August 1918 Western Front. Son of Thomas and Margaret Cameron, of Glencoe St., Rockhampton, Queensland.
Died 8 August 1918
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Reginald Basil Hingston. Unit: 24th Battalion, 1st Quebec Regiment, Canadian Expeditionary Force. Death: 08 August 1918, killed in action, Western Front.
Died 8 August 1918
Imperial War Museum