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!
'Standing By' - Gaudiempré [recto]
Waiting for the 'buses - Gaudiempré [verso]
2 April 1918
Imperial War Museum
Bombardier George Clarence Rowe 94896, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 2 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Captain Eric Paton Beaumont, M.C. , King's Liverpool Regiment
Died 2 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Company Sergeant Major Lindsay Moore 1124 DCM. Unit: D Company, 23rd (Tyneside Scottish) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 02 April 1918 Missing Western Front
Died 2 April 1918
Imperial War Museum
Driver Albert George Parker 65690, Royal Horse Artillery
Died 2 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Pour la Libération de l'Alsace-Lorraine [For the Liberation of Alsace-Lorraine]
2 April 1918
Imperial War Museum
Private Albert Ernest Crocker 17095, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
Died 2 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Cyril Simpkiss 28787, Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry
Died 2 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private David Autumn Pemberton 32893, Otago Infantry Regiment
Died 2 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Harold Masters 28134, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
Died 2 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private John Edwin Mattock 29270, 19th (Queen Alexandra's Own Royal) Hussars
Died 2 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private John Ewan 17082, 3rd Regiment South African Infantry
Died 2 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Nathaniel Reid 15773, British West Indies Regiment
Died 2 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Wilfred Hirst 52610, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
Died 2 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private William Goater 11167, British West Indies Regiment
Died 2 April 1918
Lives of the First World War
Rifleman Richard Henderson Fitzgerald 39040, New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Died 2 April 1918
Lives of the First World War