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 Bombardier Thomas Sinclair 45623, 112th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Died 2 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Captain Wilfred James Dashwood. Unit: 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Death: 02 August 1917 Killed in action Western Front
Died 2 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Gunner Alfred Charles King 98877, 112th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Died 2 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Gunner Charles William Victor Taylor 146339, 112th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Died 2 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Gunner Hamilton Goldsworthy Jones 1372, South African Heavy Artillery
Died 2 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Gunner Henry Foster Midgley 3414. Unit: Australian Field Artillery, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 02 August 1917 Western Front
Died 2 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Gunner Hugh Hornby Lonsdale 136351, Royal Field Artillery
Died 2 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Gunner Joseph Skidmore 77005, 112th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Died 2 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Gunner Samuel Cooper 88056, 112th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Died 2 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Ernest Leapidge Cooper 35966. Unit: 146th Army Troops Company, Royal Engineers. Death: 02 August 1917 Killed in action at the Third Battle of Ypres Western Front
Died 2 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Albert John Edwards , Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
Died 2 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Kenneth Fleetwood Gordon Pinhey , Royal Field Artillery
Died 2 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Kenneth Fleetwood Gordon Pinhey. Unit: A Battery, 83rd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 02 August 1917 Western Front
Died 2 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Rupert George Carrington Napier , Grenadier Guards
Died 2 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Monsieur Paul Appell, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 11 155
2 août 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Monsieur Paul Appell, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 11 156
2 août 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Private Albert Bladon 71107, Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
Died 2 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Albert Edward Breach SD/397, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 2 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Arthur Baines GS/34819. Unit: 1st or/and 7th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 02 August 1917 Of wounds France Western Front
Died 2 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private George Ripley 14223, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
Died 2 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private George William Taplin 14896, Hampshire Regiment
Died 2 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private George William Turnbull 3/9141, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
Died 2 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private James Theophilus Johnson 12263, British West Indies Regiment
Died 2 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Joseph Wragg 35887, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 2 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Joseph Wragg 35887. Unit: A Company, 1st/5th Battalion, Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Death: 02 August 1917 Missing in Action Western Front
Died 2 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private William Charles Cook 26602, Hampshire Regiment
Died 2 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Regelung des Verkehres mit Kartoffeln der Ernte des Jahres 1917 - Kundmachung - Gänserndorf
2 August 1917
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library
Second Lieutenant Alan Ferrier Gates. Unit: "B" Battery, 307th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 2 August 1917, Flanders, Western Front.
Died 2 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Sergeant Charles Snape 48522, 112th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Died 2 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Sergeant Sidney James Nye GS/700, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
Died 2 August 1917
Lives of the First World War