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!
Captain Stuart Eskin Birrell. Unit: 6th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry. Death: 11 July 1916, Western Front. Commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
Died 11 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Küche der Positions Batterie Nro. 36 im Graben zwischen JAVORCEK und KOZI BREG. Aufgenommen am 11.Juli 1916.
11 July 1916
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library
Lance Corporal Harold Dickson McRobie 17906, The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
Died 11 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Arthur George Hall 20995, Grenadier Guards
Died 11 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal James Henry Isted SD/603, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 11 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Colonel Oswald Swift Flower. Unit: 13th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Death: 11 July 1916, Mametz Wood, Somme, Western Front.
Died 11 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Duncan John Macleod Campbell , Canadian Infantry
Died 11 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant James Frederick Venmore , Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 11 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Lt Light was educated at Monkton Combe School, near Bath and Hertford College, Oxford. He enlisted with No 4 Officers Cadet Battalion at Oxford on 11 July 1916 while the Battle of the Somme was in progress on the Western Front. He received his commissio
Died 11 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lt Oliver was reported missing, aged 34, on 11 July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 11 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Albert Edmund Wilkes 4424, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 11 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Henry Hargreaves Croasdale 13027, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 11 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Herbert Derry 15527, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 11 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Herbert Leslie Benjamin 13458, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 11 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Rifleman Samuel Leslie Browne 19402, Royal Irish Rifles
Died 11 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Hugh Alexander Small MC. Unit: 20th Battalion, King’s Liverpool Regiment. Death: 11 July 1916 Killed in action at Trones Wood Western Front
Died 11 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Serjeant Leonard Clifford Smith 430, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 11 July 1916
Lives of the First World War