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!
Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class The Reverend Father William Joseph Gabriel Doyle, SJ, M.C. , Army Chaplains' Department, attached Royal Dublin Fusiliers
Died 17 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Chaplain William Joseph Doyle , Army Chaplain's Department
Died 17 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Wilmore Lorne Carmichael , Canadian Infantry
Died 17 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Madame Marie-Coralie Kahn, épouse d\'Edouard Kahn, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 11 885
17 août 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Major Fred Leslie Biddle DSO. Unit: 2nd Brigade, Australian Field Artillery, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 17 August 1917 Western Front
Died 17 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Monsieur Edouard Kahn, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 11 883
17 août 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Private Archibald Thomas Callaway 29236, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 17 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles Douglas Hamlyn Yonge 727779, Canadian Infantry Eastern Ontario Regiment
Died 17 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Charles Samuel Stiff 240982, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 17 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Frank Dawson Onslow 19873, Dorsetshire Regiment
Died 17 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private John Henry Lindsay 203117. Unit: 15th Platoon, D Company, 7th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders. Death: 17 August 1917 Missing Western Front
Died 17 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private William Blacker 40488, Worcestershire Regiment
Died 17 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Alexander Conrad C Pendrigh. Unit: 6th Battalion, attached to B Company, 2nd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment. Death: 17 August 1917 Western Front
Died 17 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Peter Robertson Purdie , Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 17 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Richard Douglas Miles, M.C. , Royal Irish Fusiliers
Died 17 August 1917
Lives of the First World War