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!
Brot aus Korn-, Gersten- und Kartoffelmehl - Kundmachung - Brünn - Mehrsprachiges Plakat
17 October 1914
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library
Captain (Retired Pay) Arthur Magor. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached 2nd Battalion, The Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment). Death: 17 October 1914 Western Front
Died 17 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Miles Bertie Cunningham Carbery , Royal Irish Fusiliers
Died 17 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Miles Bertie Cunninghame Carbery MID. Unit: C Company, 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers. Death: 17 October 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 17 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Norman Jerome Beauchamp Leslie. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Death: 17 October 1914 near Armentieres
Died 17 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Hubert Kirkby Peace. Unit: 3rd Battalion, York & Lancaster Regiment, attached to 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Death: 17 October 1914 Western Front
Died 17 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant John Eden. Unit: 12th (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers. Death: 17 October 1914 Western Front.
Died 17 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Philip John Egerton. Unit: 1st Battalion, Border Regiment. Death: 17 October 1914 Western Front. Son of Hubert and Annie Egerton, of St. Michael's Lodge, Chislehurst. Served in the South African War.
Died 17 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Francis Leslie Hastings-Medhurst , Worcestershire Regiment
Died 17 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Francis Lester (Leslie?) Hastings-Medhurst. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to the 2nd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Death: 17 October 1914, killed in action, Western Front.
Died 17 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Leonard Wyndham Rendell MID. Unit: 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Death: 17 October 1914 Western Front
Died 17 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Richard John Lumley. Unit: 11th (Prince Alberts Own) Hussars. Death: 17 October 1914 Killed in action near Ploegsteert
Died 17 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Sydney Howard Hodges , Royal Fusiliers
Died 17 October 1914
Lives of the First World War