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 Claude Henry Meysey-Thompson. Unit: 3rd Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort’s own). Death: 17 June 1915 Western Front
Died 17 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Chateau de la Hutte between Messines and Ploegsteert; The Forward Estaminet, Messines Road
17 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Dorothy Mary White, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of illness contracted on duty 17 June 1915.
Died 17 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Dorothy Mary White, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of illness contracted on duty 17 June 1915.
Died 17 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Flight Sub Lieutenant Reginald Alexander John Warneford VC. Unit: Royal Naval Air Service. Death: 17 June 1915 Killed in Action flying back from Dunkirk when his machine overturned and he was thrown out. Western Front
Died 17 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Harry Mercer-Smith 995. Unit: D Company, 9th Infantry Battalion, 3rd Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 17 June 1915 Gallipoli
Died 17 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Christopher Ernest Atherley MID. Unit: 11th Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, attached to 1st Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Death: 17 June 1915 Lancaster Landing Dardanelles
Died 17 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Guy Frederick Stringer. Unit: 2nd North Midland (Staffordshire) Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (Territorial Force). Death: 17 June 1915 Killed in action near Ypres Western Front
Died 17 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Nevill Alfred de Vere Beauclerk. Unit: 12th (Service) Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment. Death: 17 June 1915 Cape Helles Dardanelles. Son of Robert and Beatrice De Vere Beauclerk.
Died 17 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Benjamin Densley 82. Unit: 2nd Field Ambulance Section, Australian Army Medical Corps, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 17 June 1915 Killed in Action
Died 17 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Henry Mackey Drake. Unit: 8th (Irish) Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment). Death: 17 June 1915 Western Front.
Died 17 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Major Arthur Septimus Conway DSO. Unit: 1st Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment. Death: 17 June 1917 Killed in action Western Front
Died 17 June 1917
Imperial War Museum
Miss Winifred Shepherd, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of illness contracted on duty 17 June 1917.
Died 17 June 1917
Imperial War Museum