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!
Leonard Charles Ebers 1804, 9th London Regiment, Queen Victoria's Rifles
Died 17 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Lionel John Neville Neville , Royal Engineers
Died 17 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Philip Ernest Viney , Leicestershire Regiment
Died 17 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Captain Philip Ernest Viney. Unit: 1st Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment. Death: 17 December 1914 Western Front
Died 17 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Corporal Harold Walker 14783, South Lancashire Regiment
Died 17 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Charles Rollo Cooch. Unit: B Company, 2nd Battalion, Border Regiment. Death: 17 December 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 17 December 1914
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Lieutenant Colonel Ernest Chamier Broughton , York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 17 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Sidney Arthur Meakin. Unit: 4th Battalion attached 1st Battalion, The Price of Wales’s (North Staffordshire Regiment). Death: 17 December 1914 Western Front
Died 17 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Lionel John Neville. Unit: 5th Field Company, Royal Engineers. Death: 17 December 1914 Died of wounds at the Casino Hospital Boulogne. Wounded 30 November 1914 near Bailleul. Western Front
Died 17 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Private John William Illingworth 5387, Scots Guards
Died 17 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Basil Hamilton Woods , Royal Engineers
Died 17 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Sidney Courthope Bosanquet , Middlesex Regiment
Died 17 December 1914
Lives of the First World War