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 Albert William Holmes 236548, HM Submarine E46
Died 5 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Corporal James Charles Birse 401486, Canadian Infantry
Died 5 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Gunner Frederick Royle 188515, Royal Field Artillery
Died 5 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Gunner William Eely 303682, Canadian Field Artillery
Died 5 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
La Marquise de Lorra, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 12 802
5 novembre 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Major Charles Herbert Mallock , British army field artillery
Died 5 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Phillip Philp 34782, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 5 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private William Kneen Cannell 37021, Manchester Regiment
Died 5 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Rifleman Patrick Murphy 54557, New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Died 5 November 1917
Lives of the First World War