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!
Able Seaman Alexander Williams Z/1154, Royal Naval Division
Died 3 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Acting Corporal Hubert George Cecil Muggridge G/24488, Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 3 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Captain Edward George Passingham , Northumberland Fusiliers
Died 3 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Captain Eric Gordon Hogarth. Unit: 22nd Battalion, 6th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 3 May 1917, killed in action at Bullecourt, Western Front. Commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
Died 3 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Captain Francis Robinson Latter. Unit: 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment. Death: 03 May 1917 Western Front
Died 3 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Captain Joseph Henry Slater MID. Unit: 22nd Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 03 May 1917 Western Front
Died 3 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Captain Maurice Lake Hilder , att. 23rd (S) Bn. Royal Fusiliers (First Sportsman's)
Died 3 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Captain Walter Harry Corfield Bucknall. Unit: 2nd Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 03 May 1917 Bois des Aubepines, Monchy-le-Preux, Arras Western Front
Died 3 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Captain William Newlyn Gale. Unit: 2nd/4th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment. Death: 03 May 1917 Bullecourt Western Front
Died 3 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Chaplain, 4th Class The Reverend Charles Wand Mitchell , Army Chaplains' Department, attd 8th Bn. East Yorkshire Regiment
Died 3 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Corporal C Mame 3869. Unit: 22nd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 03 May 1917 Western Front
Died 3 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Corporal Frederick Arthur Webb 16742. Unit: 12th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 03 May 1917 Missing in Action Western Front
Died 3 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Corporal Willie Taylor 240758, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 3 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Drummer Edgar Heald 3349/306235. Unit: 2nd/7th Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment). Death: 3 May 1917, missing in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
Died 3 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Emilie Weatheritt, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of illness 03 May 1917.
Died 3 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
First Lieutenant Donald Robinson , The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire) Regiment
Died 3 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Gunner Richard Lloyd Temple. Unit: 5th Reinforcements Medium Trench Mortar Battery, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 03 May 1917 Western Front
Died 3 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal A T Lister 242154. Unit: West Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 03 May 1917 Missing Western Front
Died 3 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Arthur Kershaw 240720. Unit: 2nd/5th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment). Death: 03 May 1917 Missing Western Front.
Died 3 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Charles George Dixon L/10631, East Surrey Regiment
Died 3 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Edward Cowgill Wilkinson 36510. Unit: 15th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 03 May 1917 Missing
Died 3 May 1917
Imperial War Museum