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!
Able Seaman William Marshall Z/465, Royal Naval Division
Died 15 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Beside the sea at Redcliffe Beach, Queensland, ca. 1917
Taken 15 Apr 1917
State Library of Queensland, Australia
Captain Charles Leigh Pickering , Cheshire Regiment attached Royal Flying Corps
Died 15 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Captain Theodore Anthony Brown. Unit: B Company, 3rd Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment). Death: 15 April 1917.
Died 15 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Corporal Edwin Jordan 79. Unit: B Company, 4th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 15 April 1917 Western Front.
Died 15 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Corporal William Turnbull 265119, Northumberland Fusiliers
Died 15 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Driver Pentzlyn Charles Stewart 12003, Australian Field Artillery
Died 15 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal John W McQuarrie 5858. Unit: C Company, 17th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 15 April 1917 Western Front
Died 15 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Jonathan Billington 15823, Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 15 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Charles Pope VC , 11th Australian Infantry Battalion
Died 15 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant David Stevens Gibson Turnbull , Royal Highlanders
Died 15 April 1917
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Major Crathorn Edward Isham Charlton Anne , Royal Flying Corps
Died 15 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Mrs Sarah Cooper, Munitions work. Died of amatol poisoning 15 April 1917.
Died 15 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Munitions Worker Mrs Sarah Cooper , Ministry of Munitions
Died 15 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Arthur Parry Roberts 3/27986, Cheshire Regiment
Died 15 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Ernest William Turnbull 36771, Durham Light Infantry
Died 15 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Henry Rudolph Arundell 203275, Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 15 April 1917
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Private Herbert Arnold Mitchell 765358, London Regiment (Artists' Rifles)
Died 15 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private James Hickey 69. Unit: "D" Company, 12th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 15 April 1917, killed in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
Died 15 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Probationary Flight Officer Francis Holt Yates Titcomb , Royal Naval Air Service
Died 15 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Arnold Firth. Unit: 3rd/7th London Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, attached to "C" Battery, 291st Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 15 April 1917, Western Front.
Died 15 April 1917
Imperial War Museum