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 John Connelly. Service number: Clyde Z/7741. Unit: 4th Platoon, A Company, Drake Battalion, Royal Naval Division, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Death: 04 November 1917 Missing in action Western Front
Died 4 November 1917
Imperial War Museum
Acting Corporal Horace Lodwick Osborne 27966, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 4 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant John Percival Marshall , Royal Field Artillery
Died 4 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Albert George Mann 330771, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 4 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles Henry Sutton 201487, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 4 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles Rupert Woolcock 200131, Welsh Regiment
Died 4 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Ernest Rowland Lewis 534248, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 4 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Frank Dixon Riddlesworth 290515, Cheshire Regiment
Died 4 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private George Capper 241497, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 4 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Walter Herbert Ward 203912, Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 4 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant George Reginald Tyrrell 310333, Warwickshire Yeomanry
Died 4 November 1917
Lives of the First World War