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!
Lance Corporal Ernest Edwin Coleman 629, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 27 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant (Temporary Captain) John Horace Marsden , Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
Died 27 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Motor Boatman Charles Leonard Colenutt M.B.168., R.N.V.R. HMS Hermione
Died 27 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Albert Duffin 13244, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 27 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Arthur Cracknell G/10754, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 27 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Bertrand Brocklehurst 27317. Unit: 7th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment. Death: 27 April 1917. Son of Thomas and Ellen Brocklehurst, of 46, Glossop St., Leicester. Native of Hinckley.
Died 27 April 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Edgar Cotton 8556, King's Own Scottish Borderers
Died 27 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private George Norris Lynn 33502, Leicestershire Regiment
Died 27 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Joseph George Patrick Andrews 1582, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 27 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Martin J Boniface SD/576, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 27 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Maurice Sydney Weston , Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Died 27 April 1917
Lives of the First World War
Sergeant John Huon Hooke 274. Unit: "C" Company, 6th Battalion, 1st Australian Division, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 27 April 1917, wounded on 25 April 1915, Gallipoli, Dardanelles. Commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial.
Died 27 April 1917
Imperial War Museum