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!
Ambulance automobile, Welles-Perenne, France, A 7 803
16 juillet 1916
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Ambulance automobile, Welles-Perenne, France, A 7 804
16 juillet 1916
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Captain Douglas Gordon Lunt , Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 16 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Company Sergeant Major John Buchan Cranston , Cameron Highlanders
Died 16 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Corporal V W Todman 19529. Unit: 26th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 16 July 1916 Western Front
Died 16 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Hühnerhof in LIND. Aufgenommen am 16. Juli 1916.
16 July 1916
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library
Lance Corporal William Burns 10658, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 16 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Colonel William Digby Oswald, D.S.O. , West Yorkshire Regiment
Died 16 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Lionel Martineau Lupton , Royal Field Artillery
Died 16 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Thomas Eyre Barton. Unit: 14th Battalion, attached to the 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. Death: 16 July 1916, Ovillers, Somme, Western Front.
Died 16 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Alfred Ernest Smith 9144, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 16 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles Joseph Cox 10549, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 16 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles Parkinson 17347, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 16 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Edgar Charles Whitten 1117, Royal Newfoundland Regiment
Died 16 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Edward Hughes 15656, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 16 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Edward Richard Lawrence Andrews 9684, Royal Fusiliers
Died 16 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private George Edwards 1324, South Staffordshire Regiment
Died 16 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private John Stapleton Lisnett Huskisson 4549, 1st London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
Died 16 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Joseph Henry Killey 20663. Unit: 13th Battalion, Royal Scots. Death: 16 July 1916, Western Front.
Died 16 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Reggie Ellis 24334, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 16 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas James Dabbs 12639, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 16 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private William Alfred Villiers 12627, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 16 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private William Ernest Sorrell 4823, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 16 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private William Troupe 5715, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 16 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Reading Room, Elise Sandes Soldiers Home, Curragh Camp
Taken 16 Jul 1916
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Second Lieutenant Charles Sidney Garlick , King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 16 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Frank Farmer Hind , Leicestershire Regiment
Died 16 July 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Richard Dermott Atkinson , King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 16 July 1916
Lives of the First World War