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!
A gigantic shell crater 75 yards in circumference, Ypres
Taken 3 Sep 1917
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
Corporal Arthur Rogers 241087, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 3 September 1917
Lives of the First World War
First Class Stoker Horace Stanley Sharp K/17954. Unit: HMS Pembroke, Royal Navy. Death: 03 September 1917 Died of wounds
Died 3 September 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal James Cameron 241893, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 3 September 1917
Lives of the First World War
Nurse Katherine Ferrars Kinnear , Voluntary Aid Detachment
Died 3 September 1917
Lives of the First World War
Painter Second Class Arthur Edward Voice M/22859. Unit: Royal Navy – HMS Pembroke.. Death: 03 September 1917
Died 3 September 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Frederick Charles Balcombe 47550, Royal Scots
Died 3 September 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Frederick Stockton 260186, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 3 September 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private George Ruddle 242389, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 3 September 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private James Booth Bradbury 242209, East Surrey Regiment
Died 3 September 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private John William Jones 17783, Coldstream Guards
Died 3 September 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Parker Bateson 3/32262, North Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's)
Died 3 September 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Percy Bowers 260196, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 3 September 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Richard William Ashmore 28392, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 3 September 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas Roland Sheasby 242527, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 3 September 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Walter Arthur Edwards 307879, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 3 September 1917
Lives of the First World War
Schätzungsweise Aufnahme der Maisernte - Kundmachung - Užice - Mehrsprachiges Plakat
3 September 1917
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library
Second Lieutenant George Christopher Serocold Tennant , Welsh Guards
Died 3 September 1917
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Isaac Sowerby , Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 3 September 1917
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant Charles Redwood Dale 307359, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 3 September 1917
Lives of the First World War