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!
Gunner Stanley Charles Collins 108314, Royal Horse Artillery
Died 12 July 1917
Lives of the First World War
Gunner William John Deeble 606033, Royal Horse Artillery / Royal Field Artillery
Died 12 July 1917
Lives of the First World War
Les enfants de Keishiro Matsui, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 10 596
12 juillet 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Les enfants de Keishiro Matsui, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 10 597
12 juillet 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Madame Keishiro Matsui, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 10 593
12 juillet 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Monsieur Keishiro Matsui, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 10 591
12 juillet 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Private Edwin Wood 34276. Unit: C Company, 16th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 12 July 1917 Missing in Action Western Front
Died 12 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Norman Otto Frederick Gunther , Royal East Kent Yeomanry
Died 12 July 1917
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Norman Otto Frederick Gunther. Unit: Royal East Kent Mounted Rifles, attached to the 6th Battalion, the Buffs (East Kent Regiment). Death: 12 July 1917, Arras, Western Front. Commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
Died 12 July 1917
Imperial War Museum