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!
George Washington Turnbull 28719, Australian Field Artillery
Died 18 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Captain William Hope Walker. Unit: Royal Flying Corps. Death: 18 August 1917 Missing in Action Western Front
Died 18 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Aaron Kenworthy 86463, Machine Gun Corps
Died 18 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Reginald Lindsay. Unit: 11th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, transferred to the Royal Flying Corps (on 18 August 1917). Death: not known.
Died 18 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Major Stewart Hugh Joseph. Unit: Commanding 227th Field Company, Royal Engineers. Death: 18 August 1917 Western Front.
Died 18 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Monsieur Louis-Hippolyte Violette, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 11 891
18 août 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Private Albert J Acock 23236, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 18 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Alfred Edward Hicks 534721, London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 18 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Ernest Leonard Gays 20971, Army Cyclist Corps
Died 18 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private George Ernest Pigden 7077, East Surrey Regiment
Died 18 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Horace Milton Buddery 270060, Manchester Regiment
Died 18 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private John Atkinson 235394, The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
Died 18 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private John Ernest Scott 725130, Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Died 18 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Phillip Joseph Ashley 306451, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 18 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Rifleman Arthur Thomas Gooch 41840. Unit: 7th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. Death: 18 August 1917, missing in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
Died 18 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant George Bernard Hooper. Unit: "D" Company, unknown battalion, London Regiment. Death: 18 August 1917, missing in action, believed to be taken prisoner.
Died 18 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant James Robert Love , Royal Munster Fusiliers
Died 18 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Maurice Nicholson. Unit: Army Cyclist Corps, General List, attached 11th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 18 August 1917 Missing in action Western Front
Died 18 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Morris S Judd , Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 18 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Morris Stanley Judd , Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
Died 18 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Sergeant Charles James Comerford 1166, Royal Flying Corps
Died 18 August 1917
Lives of the First World War
Sergeant Frederick Hobson VC 57113, Canadian Infantry
Died 18 August 1917
Lives of the First World War