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!
Second Lieutenant Gordon Chadwick Osborn. Unit: 38th Field Company, Royal Engineers. Death: 17 April 1914 Western Front
Died 17 April 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Ernest Elliot Edlmann DSO. Unit: Commander of 23rd Peshawar Mountain Battery (Frontier Force), Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 17 April 1915 Barjisijah Persia.
Died 17 April 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private George Abner Kelly 185. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 17 April 1916 at No. 1 Australian Auxilliary Hospital Harefield, England .
Died 17 April 1916
Imperial War Museum
Louisa Sarah Ingham, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of pneumonia contracted on duty 17 April 1917.
Died 17 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Louisa Sarah Ingham, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of pneumonia contracted on duty 17 April 1917.
Died 17 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Margaret Valentine, Munitions work. Accidentally killed on duty 17 April 1917.
Died 17 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Harry Fry 5351. Unit: 22nd Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 17 April 1917, Bullecourt, Western Front. Commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
Died 17 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private John Edward Langridge 3494. Unit: Honorable Artillery Company. Death: 17 April 1917 Western Front
Died 17 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private William Thomas Free 3139. Unit: 7th Reinforcements, 40th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 17 April 1917, Sierra Leone, West Africa. Commemorated on the Freetown (King Tom) Cemetery Memorial.
Died 17 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lance Sergeant Edward J Richards 330905. Unit: A Company, 9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Death: 17 April 1918 near Paschendale Western Front
Died 17 April 1918
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Thomas Real O’Sullivan 2763. Unit: 41st Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 17 April 1918 Western Front
Died 17 April 1918
Imperial War Museum
Major Ronald Harcourt Sanderson. Unit: Royal Horse Artillery, attached to the 148th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 17 April 1918, West Flanders, Western Front.
Died 17 April 1918
Imperial War Museum
Private Albert William Atherley 25102. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Death: 17 April 1918
Died 17 April 1918
Imperial War Museum
Private Richard Balshaw 41662. Unit: 1st/5th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment. Death: 17 April 1918
Died 17 April 1918
Imperial War Museum