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!
Captain Arbuthnott John Dunbar , Royal Field Artillery
Died 17 March 1915
Lives of the First World War
Captain Michael Reginald Kirkman Hodgson. Unit: 2nd Battalion, attached to the 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 17 March 1915, killed in action near Ypres, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 17 March 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Robert Mc Gheyne Linnell , Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 17 March 1915
Lives of the First World War
Guardsman Ernest Victor Message 10000, Grenadier Guards
Died 17 March 1915
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant (Temporary) John Raymond Waddy MC MRCS LRCP MID. Unit: Royal Army Medical Corps, attached to 1st Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry. Death: 17 March 1915 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 17 March 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Bernard Francis Gotch Berrill. Unit: 6th Reserve, attached to 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). Death: 17 March 1915 Ypres Western Front
Died 17 March 1915
Imperial War Museum
Major Walter Burgess Fry. Unit: Royal Army Medical Corps. Death: 17 March 1915, died of typhus, prisoner of war camp, Wittenberg, Germany.
Died 17 March 1915
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Private William Charles Richings 15172, Grenadier Guards
Died 17 March 1915
Lives of the First World War