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!
James Robertson Swadel 6/2770, Canterbury Infantry Regiment
Died 14 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
14 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Company Serjeant Major George Anderson Strachan 315517, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Died 14 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Guardsman Leo George Skidmore 20765, Grenadier Guards
Died 14 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Gunner Edwin Gladstone Latheron 160461, Royal Field Artillery
Died 14 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Men of the 40th Battalion [AIF] having their feet attended to at Dragoon Farm, near Ypres
Taken 14 Oct 1917
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons
Private Albert Victor Finney 282331, Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 14 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Edgar Waddington 34580, Northumberland Fusiliers
Died 14 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Edward James Griggs G/18505, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
Died 14 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Edward James Griggs G/18505. Unit: 7th Battalion the Buffs, East Kent Regiment. Death: 14 October 1917, Western Front.
Died 14 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Henry Smith 22752, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 14 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private James Robertson Swadel 6/2770. Unit: 1st Battalion, Canterbury Regiment, New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Death: 14 October 1917 Killed in a railway accident Western Front
Died 14 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private John Bourgaize 22. Unit: 1st Battalion, Royal Guernsey Light Infantry. Death: 14 October 1917 Belgium Western Front
Died 14 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Jonathan Bourgaize 22, Royal Guernsey Light Infantry
Died 14 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Leo George Skidmore 20765. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Death: 14 October 1917 Missing from Western Front, October 1917. Western Front
Died 14 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Peter Thomson 7328. Unit: DCompany, 1st Battalion, 24th Reinforcements, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 14 October 1917 Killed in action at Broodseinde Ridge Western Front
Died 14 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Richard D Portch 32555, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 14 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant John Percy Fitzherbert Adams , Durham Light Infantry attached Royal Flying Corps
Died 14 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant William Daniel Bonham , Norfolk Regiment
Died 14 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant William Daniel Bonham. Unit: 7th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment. Death: 14 October 1917. Son of Thomas William and Ann Bonham, of The Chase, King's Lynn, Norfolk.
Died 14 October 1917
Imperial War Museum