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!
An Artillery Observer : a young officer observing the effect of the shells of his battery. The results of fire are telephoned back to the guns, some miles behind.
17 September 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colonel James Robert Angus , Welsh Regiment
Died 17 September 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Malcolm Shanks Carswell , Royal Berkshire Regiment
Died 17 September 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Rupert Farquhar MC. Unit: 4th Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Death: 17 September 1917, killed in action, Flanders, Western Front.
Died 17 September 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Ernest Edward Jones 12947, South Wales Borderers
Died 17 September 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Harry Thomson Blair 240079, Royal Lancaster Regiment
Died 17 September 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Horace Park 31199, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 17 September 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas Jackman 33463, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Died 17 September 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private William Ernest Percival 242103, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 17 September 1917
Lives of the First World War
Rifleman Robert Campbell Allan 535260, 15th London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 17 September 1917
Lives of the First World War