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!
Fireman Leslie Nathan , Mercantile Marine - S.S. "Feltria" (London)
Died 5 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Richard H Smith 10/1231. Unit: 10th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 05 May 1917 Missing Western Front
Died 5 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant George Donald Gray , York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 5 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant James Balleny Ireland , Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 5 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Norman Oliver Dingley , Worcestershire Regiment
Died 5 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Milchverbrauch und Verkehr - Verordnung - Lilienfeld
5 May 1917
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library
Page 21 of the Queenslander Pictorial supplement to The Queenslander, 5 May 1917
Taken 5 May 1917
State Library of Queensland, Australia
Private Charles Henry Hayes 14/54, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 5 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Clement Southwell Keen 81. Unit: 12th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 05 May 1917 Gallipoli Dardanelles.
Died 5 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Ernest Moore 41670, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
Died 5 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Miller Maffaking Fergusson 6082. Unit: 17th Reinforcements, 27th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 05 May 1917, Western Front.
Died 5 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Robert Wilfroy Riggs 6593. Unit: 21st Reinforcement, 12th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 05 May 1917 to 08 May 1917 At Bullecourt Western Front
Died 5 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private William Arnold Tomlin 203280, South Staffordshire Regiment
Died 5 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Rfmn Newberry was killed on 5 May 1917 on the Western Front. He is buried at Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery, Saulty.
Died 5 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Sapper George Alexander Kemp 218. Unit: 1st Divisional Signal Company, Australian Engineers, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 05 May 1917 Western Front.
Died 5 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Cecil Mervyn Gibson , York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 5 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Hugh Charles Greenhalgh , Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)
Died 5 May 1917
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant William Beaumont Alliban , Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Died 5 May 1917
Lives of the First World War