This site is an expanded and significantly upgraded version of the Flickr Commons based tool I created several years ago. As well as a major design/UX overhaul, it now includes data from further providers (see full list below). 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
Current totals by data source
Current totals by date accuracy
Breakdown of institutional data retrieved through Europeana
Het Nationaal Glasmuseum - 22336 items; Sjöhistoriska museet - 11809 items; Bohusläns museum - 7936 items; Vänersborgs museum - 7561 items; Kulturarv Västernorrland - 4090 items; Rijksmuseum - 3241 items; Tekniska museet - 2444 items; Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden - 2317 items; Karlsborgs fästningsmuseum - 2007 items; Miliseum - 1287 items; Örebro läns museum - 1254 items; Flygvapenmuseum - 1058 items; ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen - 1042 items; Marinmuseum - 735 items; Skansen - 629 items; Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - 579 items; Riksantikvarieämbetet - 381 items; Stiftelsen Nordiska museet - 288 items; Historisch Museum Ede - 254 items; Stedelijk Museum Zutphen - 221 items; Ajuntament de Girona - 106 items; CODA Museum - 103 items; INP - National Heritage Institute, Bucharest - 103 items; Upplandsmuseet - 102 items; The Archaeological Heritage Agency of Iceland - 95 items; Aaltense Musea - 58 items; Stadsmuseum Harderwijk - 56 items; Sundsvalls museum - 50 items; National library of Montenegro "Đurđe Crnojević" - 44 items; Länsmuseet Gävleborg - 37 items; Nederlands Openluchtmuseum - 31 items; Vasamuseet - 28 items; Images of Old Cluj - 27 items; Nederlands Tegelmuseum - 20 items; Postmuseum - 18 items; Δήμος Τρίπολης - 11 items; Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem - 9 items; Cluj County Library - 9 items; Slovak National Library - 8 items; Csorba Győző Könyvtár - Pécs - 7 items; Stadskasteel Zaltbommel - 7 items; Stichting Liemers Museum - 6 items; Lietuvos dailės muziejus - 4 items; Žemaičių muziejus „Alka“ / Samogitian Museum "Alka" - 3 items; Deventer Musea - 3 items; NOC*NSF - 3 items; Nationalmuseum, Sweden - 2 items; Wikimedia Commons Community - 2 items; Lietuvos švietimo istorijos muziejus / Museum of Lithuanian Education History - 2 items; Rippl-Rónai Megyei Hatókörű Városi Múzeum - Kaposvár - 2 items; Museum Elburg - 1 items; National Library of Bulgaria - 1 items; Horniman Museum and Gardens - 1 items; jNederlands Openluchtmuseum - 1 items; Lietuvos dailės muziejus / Lithuanian Art Museum - 1 items; Kauno IX forto muziejus / Kaunas 9th Fort Museum - 1 items; A. Baranausko ir A. Vienuolio-Žukausko memorialinis muziejus / Antanas Baranauskas and Antanas Vienuolis-Žukauskas Memorial Museum - 1 items; Slot Loevestein - 1 items; Museon - 1 items
Breakdown of institutional data retrieved through Flickr Commons
The U.S. National Archives - 1730 items; The Library of Congress - 1093 items; SMU Libraries Digital Collections - 1038 items; State Library and Archives of Florida - 912 items; State Library of Queensland, Australia - 891 items; Cornell University Library - 840 items; bibliothequedetoulouse - 821 items; Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons - 567 items; Swedish National Heritage Board - 559 items; National Library of Ireland on The Commons - 494 items; State Library of New South Wales collection - 402 items; Vestfoldmuseene | Vestfold Museums - 385 items; MissouriStateArchives - 371 items; National Library of Australia Commons - 295 items; NASA on The Commons - 262 items; Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums - 249 items; National Library of Norway - 229 items; Royal Australian Historical Society - 216 items; Deseronto Archives - 183 items; Provincial Archives of Alberta - 177 items; Powerhouse Museum Collection - 170 items; UW Digital Collections - 123 items; National Library NZ on The Commons - 123 items; UA Archives | Upper Arlington History - 114 items; National Library of Scotland - 105 items; Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest - 89 items; Australian War Memorial collection - 88 items; Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons - 78 items; National Archives of Estonia - 67 items; Museum of Photographic Arts Collections - 64 items; Stockholm Transport Museum Commons - 61 items; Liberas / Liberaal Archief - 59 items; National Museum of Denmark - 55 items; Costică Acsinte Archive - 49 items; The Gallen-Kallela Museum - 46 items; Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle - 46 items; Museum of Hartlepool - 45 items; George Eastman Museum - 33 items; San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives - 32 items; The National Archives UK - 31 items; tyrrellhistoricallibrary - 29 items; Preus museum - 27 items; Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane - 21 items; OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons - 21 items; The Finnish Museum of Photography - 20 items; National Science and Media Museum - 17 items; Schlesinger Library, RIAS, Harvard University - 9 items; Huron County Museum & Historic Gaol - 7 items; Smithsonian Institution - 4 items; Getty Research Institute - 4 items; Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland - 4 items; The British Library - 2 items; Camden Public Library (Maine) - 2 items; Center for Jewish History, NYC - 1 items; Kalamazoo Public Library - 1 items; Aalto University Library and Archive Commons - 1 items;
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 website code and generated data is openly licensed so please feel free to copy, modify, distribute as you please (subject to any restrictions as imposed by the content and toolset providers).
Private Andrew Thomas Day 8/3889, Otago Infantry Regiment
Died 20 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Arthur Smith 17832, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 20 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Ernest Ellis 5096, British West Indies Regiment
Died 20 August 1916
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Private Frederick James Stevens 22824, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Died 20 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Frederick John Thompson 3959. Unit: 6th Battalion, Australian Expeditionary Force. Death: 20 August 1916 Died of wounds at 3 Casualty Clearing St ation Western Front
Died 20 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private George Grant Geddes Angus 4127. Unit: D Company, 1st Pioneer Battalion, 1st Australian Division, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 20 August 1916 Western Front
Died 20 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Norman John McLeod 3395. Unit: 14th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 20 August 1916 Western Front
Died 20 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Walter James 19421, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
Died 20 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private William Best 1647, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 20 August 1916
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Rifleman Ernest Farrar R/19527, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 20 August 1916
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Rifleman Frank Sheard R/19748, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 20 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant Nevill Lindsay Young , Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 20 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant Nevill Lindsay Young. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment. Death: 20 August 1916 at the Battle of the Somme Western Front
Died 20 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant William Eric Berridge , Somerset Light Infantry
Died 20 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Frank James Dunn 9849, South Wales Borderers
Died 21 August 1916
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Private Alexander Frank Osborne 10896, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
Died 21 August 1916
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PRIVATE Cecil Stanley Hudson 5162, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 21 August 1916
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Private Charles Ernest Hamilton 12/3665, Auckland Infantry Regiment
Died 21 August 1916
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Private Frederick Reeves PLY/872, Royal Marine Light Infantry: Plymouth Division
Died 21 August 1916
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Private Harry Stokes 9749, Scottish Rifles, Cameronians
Died 21 August 1916
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Private Henry Underhill 6764, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 21 August 1916
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Private James Crabtree 7443, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 21 August 1916
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Private Joseph Henry Wells S/2374, Seaforth Highlanders
Died 21 August 1916
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Private Lawrence Smith 3628, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Died 21 August 1916
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Private Lewis Charles Ainsworth 23949, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 21 August 1916
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Private Trevor Arnold Thomas 21520, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 21 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private William Brant 13/1235, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 21 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant Alfred Alcock. Unit: 8th Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Death: 21 August 1916, High Wood, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 21 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Sydney Thomas Askham. Unit: 9th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Death: 21 August 1916, missing, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 21 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Able Seaman Edwin Jack Page J.6829. (CH), HM Submarine E16
Died 22 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Able Seaman Herbert William Peerless J.4887. (CH), HM Submarine E16
Died 22 August 1916
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Able Seaman Peter James Frampton 210057 (Po), HM Submarine E16
Died 22 August 1916
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Able Seaman William Henry Bulbeck J.4675. (Po.), HM Submarine E16
Died 22 August 1916
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Acting Chief Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class Arthur Edward Wade 270991. (PO), HM Submarine E16
Died 22 August 1916
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Engine Room Artificer 4th Class George Edgar Morgan M. 7310. (Ch.), HM Submarine E16
Died 22 August 1916
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Engine Room Artificer 4th Class George Wilbraham M.11731. (CH), HM Submarine E16
Died 22 August 1916
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Leading Seaman Alfred Thornton 228151. (Ch), HM Submarine E16
Died 22 August 1916
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Leading Stoker William George Pickering 221754. (Po.), HM Submarine E16
Died 22 August 1916
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Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Francis Mary Kelly , Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 22 August 1916
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Private Benjamin Ryley 4503, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Died 22 August 1916
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Private George Robert Guest 3919, Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 22 August 1916
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Private Henry Charles Allway 10987, Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 22 August 1916
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Private Henry Haigh 3/2661, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 22 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant Alex James Berry , Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 22 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant Kenneth Lees Duckett. Unit: 9th Battalion (Glasgow Highlanders), Highland Light Infantry. Death: 22 August 1916 Western Front.
Died 22 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Serjeant Henry C Smith 8442, Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 22 August 1916
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Serjeant Oswald A Barr S.E 5687, Army Veterinary Corps
Died 22 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Signaller William Dixon Ashley 4133. Unit: 9th Battalion, 3rd Brigade, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 22 August 1916 Wounded and Missing in action Western Front
Died 22 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Signalman James Hughes 240077. (DEV), HM Submarine E16
Died 22 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Stoker 1st Class Frank Edkins K.17671. (Po.), HM Submarine E16
Died 22 August 1916
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Stoker 1st Class Herbert Houghton Grice K17216, HM Submarine E16
Died 22 August 1916
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Stoker 1st Class John O'Neill K.16227. (Po.), HM Submarine E16
Died 22 August 1916
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Stoker 1st Class John Sampson Prior K.8930. (Dev.), HM Submarine E16
Died 22 August 1916
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Stoker 1st Class Percy William Sharpe K.20183 (Dev.), HM Submarine E16
Died 22 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Stoker Petty Officer Patrick Horgan 295011. (PO), HM Submarine E16
Died 22 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Sub-Lieutenant Alistair Gordon Cameron, D.S.C. , Royal Naval Reserve
Died 22 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Battery Quartermaster Sergeant Joseph Alexander Ashford 19477. Unit: "A" Battery, 100th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 23 August 1916, Macedonia. Buried at the Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery.
Died 23 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Gunner Charles Wilfred Strong 102370, Royal Field Artillery
Died 23 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Gunner Walter Francis Butt 7841. Unit: 22nd Brigade, Australian Field Artillery, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 23 August 1916, Western Front.
Died 23 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Alfred John Saunders Sth/224, Royal Fusiliers
Died 23 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Alfred Langridge 3346. Unit: 6th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 23 August 1916 From gas poisoning Western Front
Died 23 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Leslie Haliburton Fynmore 628. Unit: "C" Company, 21st Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 23 August 1916, Mouquet Farm, Somme, Western Front.
Died 23 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Robert Rimmer 31219, King's Liverpool Regiment
Died 23 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Woolf Fisher 4518/266755. Unit: 1st/1st Bucks Battalion, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry. Death: 23 August 1916, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 23 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Rifleman Thomas Bentham R/14648, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 23 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Edward Lionel Austin Butler 2, Australian Infantry
Died 23 August 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Edward Lionel Austin Butler. Unit: 12th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 23 August 1916
Died 23 August 1916
Imperial War Museum