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!
Captain Percy Herbert Cherry VC , 26th Australian Infantry Battalion
Died 27 March 1917
Lives of the First World War
Exploitation agricole dans le quartier de la Haubette (?), Reims, Marne, Champagne, France, A 11 462
27 mars 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Infirmiere Major Maude Millicent Wilson , British Committee, French Red Cross
Died 27 March 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant R. L. Fraser 817. Unit: Northumberland Hussars, attached to the 13th Battalion, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment (Sherwood Foresters). Death: not known. Commissioned on 27 March 1917.
Died 27 March 1917
Imperial War Museum
Portrait du docteur Langlet, maire de Reims et de ses deux adjoints, Reims, Marne, Champagne, France, A 11 460
27 mars 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Portrait du docteur Langlet, maire de Reims, Reims, Marne, Champagne, France, A 11 459
27 mars 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Private Charles Herbert Stone G/16594, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 27 March 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Frederick Gordon King 3559. Unit: 58th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 27 March 1917 Western Front. Son of Robert Henry and Annie Maria King, of Schofield St., Essendon, Victoria, Australia.
Died 27 March 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Frederick William Gidley 481, Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 27 March 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private William James Martin 45631, Devonshire Regiment
Died 27 March 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private William Jones 48842, The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
Died 27 March 1917
Lives of the First World War
Seaman William Halloran , Mercantile Marine - S.S. "Thracia" (Liverpool)
Died 27 March 1917
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Harold Penrose. Unit: 12th Battalion, attached to 8th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 27 March 1917 Western Front
Died 27 March 1917
Imperial War Museum