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!
Pte Tickle enlisted on 7 September 1914 and was accepted although he was under age. He was killed on 3 July 1916, aged 17, during the Battle of the Somme. His mother's handwritten note on the photograph (taken a few days before his death) describes him
Died 7 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Harold Alexander Boyd. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Death: 07 September 1914 Western Front
Died 7 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
7 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
7 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Harold Vernon Browne. Unit: Dorset Yeomanry (Queen's Own). Death: 07 September 1915 Suvla Bay Dardanelles
Died 7 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Geoffrey Brian Hobbs. Unit: 10th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, attached to No. 9 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 7 September 1915, killed while flying on military duty near Dover, Home Front.
Died 7 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
Ada Moreton, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve. Died on active service in Bombay 07 September 1916.
Died 7 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
Ada Moreton, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve. Died on active service in Bombay 07 September 1916.
Died 7 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Cecil Stuart Russell. Unit: Royal Artillery. Death: 07 September 1916 Western Front
Died 7 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
Sergeant Roy McGregor. Unit: 7th Battalion, 1st Division, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 07 September 1916 Ypres Western Front
Died 7 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
Corporal Thomas George Clark 698. Unit: C Company, 52nd Battalion (late 12th Battalion), Australian Imperial Force. Death: 07 September 1917 Died of wounds aged 22 years Western Front
Died 7 September 1917
Imperial War Museum
Rita Trevethan, Territorial Force Nursing Service. Died of enteric fever in Mesopotamia 07 September 1917.
Died 7 September 1917
Imperial War Museum