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!
Captain Humphry Nisbet Swann. Unit: Deputy Adjutant & Quartermaster General, 2nd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, attached to Staff, XV Corps. Death: 04 April 1917 Accidentally killed Western Front
Died 4 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Gunner Robert Pritchard Jones 92372, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 4 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
La rue de Bétheny après un bombardement, Reims, Marne, Champagne, France, A 11 542
4 avril 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La rue Saint-André (aujourd\'hui rue Raymond-Guyot) après un bombardement, Reims, Marne, Champagne, France, A 11 541
4 avril 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Lance Corporal James McDonald D/12944, Corps of Dragoons
Died 4 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Maison en ruine, rue de Bétheny, après un bombardement, Reims, Marne, Champagne, France, A 11 539
4 avril 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Maisons, rue de Bétheny, après un bombardement, Reims, Marne, Champagne, France, A 11 537
4 avril 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Maisons, rue de Bétheny, après un bombardement, Reims, Marne, Champagne, France, A 11 538
4 avril 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Private Clarence Allen Burling 27A, Australian Infantry
Died 4 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Edgar Whichello 11738, Royal Berkshire Regiment
Died 4 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Leonard Samuel Kilroy F/559, Middlesex Regiment
Died 4 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Sidney Ernest Stephens 555, Australian Infantry
Died 4 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private William George Victor Reynolds 14656, Dorsetshire Regiment
Died 4 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private William Stephen Roberts 2469, Australian Infantry
Died 4 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Harold Charles Davis , London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
Died 4 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Stewardess Elizabeth McLean , Mercantile Marine - S.S. "City of Paris" (Glasgow)
Died 4 April 1917
Lives of the First World War