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!
Driver C McArthur 19926. Unit: 31st Battery, 8th Brigade, Australian Field Artillery. Death: 07 July 1917 Died of wounds 11th C.C.S
Died 7 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Gunner Albert Victor Nicholls L/14273, Royal Field Artillery
Died 7 July 1917
Lives of the First World War
Gunner James Henry McGahey 14624. Unit: 30th Howitzer Battery, 8th Brigade, Australian Field Artillery, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 07 July 1917 Messines Ridge Western Front
Died 7 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant R Thomas. Unit: Royal Naval Reserve, HMS Kelvin. Death: 07 July 1917 Killed in action
Died 7 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Albert Leonard Sims 1575, Royal Marine Light Infantry: Plymouth Division
Died 7 July 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private David I Jones 3576, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Died 7 July 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Frank P Thomson 203945, Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 7 July 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Oscar John Henry Foote 16847. Unit: 2nd Company, 2nd Battalion, Grandier Guards. Death: 7 July 1917, Poperinghe, Western Front.
Died 7 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Rifleman Edward Ernest Parker 653081, London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles)
Died 7 July 1917
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant D. E. Hardie. Unit: Royal Garrison Artillery, commissioned on 7th July 1917. Death: not known.
Died 7 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Ernest Stanford Cornford 6/2099. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Canterbury Infantry Regiment, New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Death: 07 July 1917 Killed in action Western Front. Son of Arthur and Miriam Cornford, of Maidstone, England.
Died 7 July 1917
Imperial War Museum