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 /Acting Major John Wedderburn-Maxwell , Royal Field Artillery
Died 24 January 1990
Lives of the First World War
Private Herbert Bradbourne 122898, Machine Gun Corps
Died 2 February 1990
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Charles Edmund Carrington, MC , Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 21 June 1990
Lives of the First World War
Nursing Sister Ella May MATTHEWS , Canadian Army Medical Corps
Died 30 July 1990
Lives of the First World War
Gunner Athol Walter Boustred 234402, Royal Field Artillery
Died 17 August 1990
Lives of the First World War
Nursing Sister Jessie Helen Weir , Canadian Army Medical Corps
Died 29 August 1990
Lives of the First World War