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!
Air Mechanic 1st Class William Alfred Edwin Samways 14262, Royal Flying Corps
Died 29 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Bombadier George Waterland 115393, Royal Field artillery
Died 29 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Company Quartermaster Serjeant Ernest William Mansbridge 530626, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 29 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Corporal Harry Exley McKelvin 97747, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Died 29 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Gunner Joseph Goulding 165181, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 29 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Daniel Macgillivray Taylor 532106, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 29 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal John Minton 40936, Lincolnshire Regiment
Died 29 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Le colonnel serbe Bojidanovitch, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 12 774 X
29 novembre 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Le colonnel serbe Bojidanovitch, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 12 775 X
29 novembre 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Madame Veille et sa fillette, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 12 790
29 novembre 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Madame Veille, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 12 787
29 novembre 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Mademoiselle Veille, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 12 784 X
29 novembre 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Monsieur Paul Durand, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 12 793 X
29 novembre 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Monsieur Veille, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 12 781
29 novembre 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Mrs A J Robertson, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died November 1917 29 November 1917.
Died 29 November 1917
Imperial War Museum
Mrs A J Robertson, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died November 1917 29 November 1917.
Died 29 November 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Albert Cassidy G/12671, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 29 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Alexander George Smith 536738, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 29 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Archibald Simpson 308116, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
Died 29 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Byron Blackburn 201041, West Riding Regiment
Died 29 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Ernest Henry Garwood 533095, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 29 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Evaril Augustas Dunkley 3934, British West Indies Regiment
Died 29 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private George William Burdett Clare VC L/6657, 5th Lancers
Died 29 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private George William Orman 533089, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 29 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Herbert Stanley Knight 532633, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 29 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private James K. Laird 33440, Highland Light Infantry
Died 29 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private John Francis Cheesewright 53310, Manchester Regiment
Died 29 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Sidney Proctor 531006, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 29 November 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Walter Weston 201832, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
Died 29 November 1917
Lives of the First World War