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!
Beschlagnahme, Vermahlung und Beförderung von Brotgetreide - Bekanntmachung - Brüssel - Mehrsprachiges Plakat
8 July 1916
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library
Corporal Reginald Backshall 241754, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 8 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Alfred Braithwaite 14/1100, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 8 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private George Edward Turnbull 16624, Yorkshire Regiment
Died 8 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Harry Frencham Moad 4262. Unit: 8th Battalion, 2nd Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 8 July 1916, near Bailleul, Western Front.
Died 8 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Henry John Bannell 7006, Duke Of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment)
Died 8 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private John Edwin Balme 15/1093, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
Died 8 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Lewis Hallas Jessop 5/4262, West Riding Regiment
Died 8 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas Goodwin 22180, King's Own Scottish Borderers
Died 8 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Rifleman Cyril Bernardine Holroyd 4381, London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles)
Died 8 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Arthur William Spring Cowie , Lincolnshire Regiment
Died 8 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Bernard Jocelyn Wilkinson. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 08 July 1916 Wounded & missing in neighbourhood of Trônes Wood Western Front
Died 8 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Cyril Edward Cook , Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 8 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Norman Arthur Southard Barnard. Unit: 18th Battalion, the King's (Liverpool Regiment). Death: 8 July 1916, Somme, Western Front.
Died 8 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Owen W Steele 326, Newfoundland Regiment
Died 8 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Tom Dalrymple Strathern , Yorkshire Regiment
Died 8 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Tom Dalrymple Strathern. Unit: 3rd Battalion attached to 2nd Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 08 July 1916 Missing in action Western Front
Died 8 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant William Beaumont Burns , Worcestershire Regiment
Died 8 July 1916
Lives of the First World War