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!
Brendon F Mulholland MC. Unit: Royal Field Artillery. Death: 03 August 1917
Died 3 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Captain Charles Cadwaladr Trevor-Roper , Hampshire Regiment
Died 3 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Captain Roy Hector Blashki MID. Unit: 53rd Battery, 14th Brigade, Australian Field Artillery. Death: 3 August 1917.
Died 3 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Monsieur Oudin, fils, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 11 160 X
3 août 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Private Anthony Gow 15967, 4th Regiment South African Infantry
Died 3 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private G A Salthouse 50636. Unit: 5th Platoon, B Company, 20th Battalion, The King’s (Liverpool Regiment). Death: 03 August 1917 Missing in action Western Front
Died 3 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Horace Albert Watson 13/698, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 3 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Horace William Butler 17863, Wiltshire Regiment
Died 3 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private John Philip Du Fen 534745, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 3 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas Joseph Gover 534771, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 3 August 1917
Lives of the First World War