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!
Driver Robert James Dowdeswell T/312437, Army Service Corps
Died 20 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Gunner James Selwyn Hitchen 77495, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 20 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant David Harold Maclean Sinclair. Unit: 2nd Australian Light Horse Regiment (Mounted Anzac Division). Death: 20 April 1917 Killed in action at Gaza Egypt & Palestine
Died 20 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Miss Jessie Bridge, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died April 1917 20 April 1917.
Died 20 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Cephas Phillips 4895, British West Indies Regiment
Died 20 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Claude Hubert Cox 116101. Unit: 7th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force. Death: 20 April 1917
Died 20 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private George Henry Aries 202153, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
Died 20 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Oliver Charles Weaver 23025, Worcestershire Regiment
Died 20 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Richard Lillico Turnbull 200946, King's Own Scottish Borderers
Died 20 April 1917
Lives of the First World War