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!
18-pounder being hauled through the mud at Broodseinde Ridge ... two days before the initial attack on Passchendaele Ridge, Ypres
Taken 10 Oct 1917
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
Driver Samuel John Wood Pepper 141038, Royal Field Artillery
Died 10 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Arthur Swindlehurst Wade 203202. Unit: 2nd/4th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment. Death: 10 October 1917 Missing in Action near Ypres. Western Front
Died 10 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Elijah Herbert Chappell 8961, Scots Guards
Died 10 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal William Dawson 29205. Unit: B Company, 2nd Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment). Death: 10 October 1917 Wounded and Missing in action Western Front
Died 10 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colonel George Everard Hope , Grenadier Guards
Died 10 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant David Gwynne Powell. Unit: Royal Flying Corps. Death: 10 October 1917 Western Front
Died 10 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Hugh Stevenson. Unit: 6th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers. Death: 10 October 1917 Missing in action Western Front
Died 10 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Arthur Arnold 268759, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
Died 10 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Fred Moss 203021, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 10 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Frederick Sydney Horn 58352, Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 10 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Frederick W Gill 330744, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 10 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private George Arthur Fish 55956, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Died 10 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private George Harry Game 270090, Manchester Regiment
Died 10 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Harold James Gorman 89455, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Died 10 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Harold Porter 10627, Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 10 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Henry Bertrand Teakle 260054, Worcestershire Regiment
Died 10 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private John Fossett 21710, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 10 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private John Hodge Olver 28513, East Surrey Regiment
Died 10 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Sidney Davey 14558. Unit: 8th Platoon, B Company, 6th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 10 October 1917 Missing in action Western Front. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Davey, of 170, Fox St., Pitsmoor, Sheffield.
Died 10 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Thomas Hemmings 29927. Unit: 16th Platoon, "D" Company, 2nd/4th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment. Death: 10 October 1917, missing in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
Died 10 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Thomas Hemmings 36644, North Staffordshire Regiment
Died 10 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Timothy Corless 30465, East Lancashire Regiment
Died 10 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private William A Wood 204945. Unit: 3rd Platoon, A Company, 2nd/7th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers. Death: 10 October 1917 Missing in Action Western Front
Died 10 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Romani. Mount Meredith : the southern side of the ridge. Sand bagged graves of the Australian Light Horse are on the near slope, and on the further end the Turks lie buried.
10 October 1917
Imperial War Museum