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!
Gunner Harold Victor Walters 36539. Unit: 25th Battery, 7th Brigade, Australian Field Artillery, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 31 August 1918 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 31 August 1918
Imperial War Museum
Monsieur Bonnet, fils, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 14 575
31 août 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Private A G Ockenden S/34830 or S/34840. Unit: 5th Battalion, Rifle Brigade, attached to 1st/8th Battalion, London Regiment (Post Office Rifles). Death: 31 August 1918 Western Front
Died 31 August 1918
Imperial War Museum
Private Charles Eldridge 35859, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 31 August 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Norman Lacey 36278, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 31 August 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas Barron 58065, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 31 August 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Victor Arthur John Percox 31437, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 31 August 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private William Levi Juggins 50830, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 31 August 1918
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Henry Stobart Gammell, MC , Gordon Highlanders
Died 31 August 1918
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Reginald Fleetwood Rothwell , London Regiment
Died 31 August 1918
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant William Francis Penwarden , Royal Fusiliers
Died 31 August 1918
Lives of the First World War
Sergeant Leigh Smith 771777. Unit: C Battery, 72nd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 31 August 1918 Killed in action at Bankswood near St. Ledger Western Front
Died 31 August 1918
Imperial War Museum
THE ROYAL ENGINEERS SIGNALS SERVICE ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
31 August 1918
Imperial War Museum