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!
Acting Quarter Master Serjeant Sidney Edward Oates 16088, Suffolk Regiment
Died 28 July 1917
Lives of the First World War
Captain Philip Charles Paul Tattersall DSO. Unit: 1st/11th Battalion, London Regiment (Finsbury Rifles). Death: 28 July 1917 Killed in action in Palestine (now part of Israel)
Died 28 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Captain Philip Charles Paul Tattersall, D.S.O. , London Regiment (Finsbury Rifles)
Died 28 July 1917
Lives of the First World War
Corporal Charles Phelps 5774, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 28 July 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant G C N Cooke. Unit: 50th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force. Death: 28 July 1917 Killed while flying at Oxford Home Front (but served on Western Front at Vimy and Lens)
Died 28 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Joseph Cecil Smith. Unit: Royal Warwickshire Regiment, attached to 70th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 28 July 1917 Missing (Machine B/3874, Engine no R 1518 WD 14647) Western Front
Died 28 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Monsieur Philippe Vernes, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 11 139
28 juillet 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Private George Henry Mason 30445, Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 28 July 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Jacobus Mozupe 2098, South African Native Labour Corps
Died 28 July 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Richard Charles Arnold 23155, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 28 July 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Wilfred Weatherman 292390, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 28 July 1917
Lives of the First World War