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!
Lieutenant Arthur Clegg Fanshawe Royle. Unit: 1st Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s (North Staffordshire Regiment). Death: 27 September 1914 Died from wounds received at Battle of the Aisne on 22 Sep Western Front
Died 27 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain George Reginald Houstoun-Boswall. Unit: No. 2 Company, 4th Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Death: 27 September 1915, missing in action near Loos, Western Front. Commemorated on the Loos Memorial.
Died 27 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Henry Hewlett Eales-White. Unit: B Company, 6th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers. Death: 27 September 1915 Wounded and Missing in Action at the Hohenzollern Redoubt Western Front
Died 27 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain James Harold Cuthbert DSO. Unit: 1st Battalion, Scots Guards. Death: 27 September 1915 Missing in action at Puits near Loos Western Front
Died 27 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain John Brodie. Unit: 6th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers. Death: 27 September 1915 Hohenzollern Redoubt Western Front
Died 27 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain P V Rose. Unit: Staff officer of 63rd Brigade, 21st Division. Death: 27 September 1915 to 29 September 1915 Missing Western Front
Died 27 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Alan Hawtin Tompson. Unit: 4th Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Death: 27 September 1915 Missing in action Western Front
Died 27 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Arthur Jaques. Unit: 12th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own). Death: 27 September 1915 Western Front
Died 27 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Bernard Henry Holloway. Unit: 9th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment. Death: 27 September 1915, killed in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Loos Memorial.
Died 27 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
Major Joseph Hodgson Jaques. Unit: 12th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince Wales's Own). Death: 27 September 1915 missing between Loss and Hulluch, Western Front.
Died 27 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Albert Edward Norman 2191. Unit: 14th Platoon, D Company, 1st/23rd Battalion, London Regiment. Death: 27 September 1915 Western Front
Died 27 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Issac Truman 79. Unit: 3rd Company, 1st Battalion, Welsh Guards. Death: 27 September 1915 Western Front
Died 27 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Jonathan Spendlove 15936. Unit: B Company, 7th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. Death: 27 September 1915 Wounded and missing at Loos Western Front
Died 27 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Percival Innes G/6024. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 27 September 1915 Western Front. Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Innes, of Inglewood, Buxton, Derbyshire.
Died 27 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Thomas Turley 20191. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Death: 27 September 1915 Killed in action at Loos Western Front
Died 27 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant John Kipling. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Irish Guards. Death: 27 September 1915 wounded and missing at Loos beyond the Chalk Pit Wood, Western Front.
Died 27 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
27 September 1916
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
27 September 1916
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
27 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
27 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
27 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
27 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
27 September 1916
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
27 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
27 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
27 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
27 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
27 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
27 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
27 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
27 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
Captain Geoffrey George Horn Batty. Unit: 6th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. Death: 27 September 1916.
He died of wounds received during the Battle of the Somme on 27 September 1916. He was 21 and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 27 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Arthur Henry Britton G/14776. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment. Death: 27 September 1916, missing, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 27 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Herbert Robinson 19883. Unit: C Company, 9th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Waless Own). Death: 27 September 1916 Western Front
Died 27 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private William Herbert Donnelly 161308. Unit: C Company, 31st Battalion, Alberta Regiment, Canadian Expeditionary Force. Death: 27 September 1916 Missing in action Western Front
Died 27 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
27 September 1917
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
27 September 1917
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
27 September 1917
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
27 September 1917
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
27 September 1917
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
27 September 1917
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
27 September 1917
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
27 September 1917
Imperial War Museum
Gunner Albert Arthur Le Roux 19993. Unit: 31st Battalion, 8th Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 27 September 1917
Died 27 September 1917
Imperial War Museum
Major Sidney Miles Toppin MC. Unit: 151st Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 27 September 1917 Killed in action Western Front
Died 27 September 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Frank Parkes 27413. Unit: A Company, 17th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters. Death: 27 September 1917 Missing Western Front
Died 27 September 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Conrad Hugh Dinwiddy. Unit: 13th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 27 September 1917 Killed in action Western Front.
Died 27 September 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Walter Francis Joseph Clifford. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Irish Guards. Death: 27 September 1917 Killed in action near Loos Western Front
Died 27 September 1917
Imperial War Museum
The "Six" Poplars Between the British and German Front Lines East of Hebuterne, September 27 1917
27 September 1917
Imperial War Museum