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 Eric Guy Harries , 7th Royal Welsh Fusiliers Territorial Force
Died 17 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
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17 August 1915
Stadsmuseum Harderwijk
Driver Walter Hutcheson 1412. Unit: Ammunition Column, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 17 August 1915 Killed in an accident at Alexandria Egypt
Died 17 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colonel William Frank Everett. Unit: 6th Australian Light Horse Regiment, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 17 August 1915 Died in the UK after being invalided in Egypt.
Died 17 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private George William Edmund Jesson 2895, Leicestershire Regiment
Died 17 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant Albert Frank Dracup 3026, Bedfordshire Regiment
Died 17 August 1915
Lives of the First World War