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!
Lance Corporal John Lindon 310206, Warwickshire Yeomanry
Died 12 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Norman Sydney Smith 16751, South Staffordshire Regiment
Died 12 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Archibald John Harvey, M.M. 1305, 29th Canadian Infantry Bn.
Died 12 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Mesdemoiselles Jeanne, Germaine, Simone et Madeleine Bouglé, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 12 658
12 novembre 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Private Cecil George Turner 6048, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 12 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Francis Bennett 17109, 1st Grenadier Guards
Died 12 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Hector Wark 33882, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 12 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Henry Thomas Carmalt 110504, Machine Gun Corps (Cavalry)
Died 12 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Rifleman Ernest Nelson Boddington 52939, New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Died 12 November 1917
Lives of the First World War