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!
'Telerun' - First Camp Halt from Bam Pong, 16 May 1943
verso: Portrait of a Young Malay, Malaya, January 1942
16 May 1943
Imperial War Museum
RAF Duty Boats and Naval Rescue Launches at Stornoway : a motor drifter on its way to the fishing grounds
30 June 1943
Imperial War Museum
Sick and Dying: Man [Barratt] Sick with Tropical Ulcers and Fever, Three Days before Death, Thailand, 26 July 1943
26 July 1943
Imperial War Museum
American Troops Playing Horseshoe and Peg (Barnyard Golf) Skipton Camp, Reykjavik : August 1943
1 August 1943
Imperial War Museum
Laying the Mains for a Water Supply from the Hot Springs, Reykjavik : August 1943
1 August 1943
Imperial War Museum
Sick and Dying: No.1 Hospital Tent, English Lines, Konyu Camp No.3. 'Oscar' and Lance Corporal Miller
1 August 1943
Imperial War Museum
Chinese and Indian Labourers Arriving at the Jungle Camps, 24 August 1943
24 August 1943
Imperial War Museum
Sick and Dying: Sketched in No.1 Hospital Tent, English Lines, Camp K3, Thailand, 26 August 1943
verso: Malayan Refugees, 1942
26 August 1943
Imperial War Museum
Brigadier T G Rennie, DSO, MBE : 154 Brigade, 51st Highland Division
29 August 1943
Imperial War Museum
Looking Over the Straits of Messina before the Invasion of Italy : the observation post was in Messina Lighthouse
30 August 1943
Imperial War Museum
Sick and Dying: Prisoner Dying of Cardiac Beri-beri - No.1 Hospital Tent, English Lines, Camp K3, Thailand, 1 September
1943
verso: Thais Fixing an Attap Roof
1 September 1943
Imperial War Museum
National Day of Prayer : At the Royal Military College, Camberley, 3rd September 1943
3 September 1943
Imperial War Museum
Sick and Dying: Cholera, Tarso Camp, 15 September 1943, Two Months After Illness
15 September 1943
Imperial War Museum