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!
Flygplan Albatros nr 6 med skidor står på Storsjöns is, 1915. Flygförare Carl Silow och flygspanare på plats i flygplanet. Flygmekaniker bredvid flygplanet. Vy från sidan.
1 February 1915
Flygvapenmuseum
Lieutenant Anthony Henry Simpson. Unit: Special Reserve, attached to 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Death: 01 February 1915 Died in military hospital at Boulogne of acute bronchitis. Western Front
Died 1 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Robert St John Blacker-Douglass MC. Unit: 1st Battalion, Irish Guards. Death: 01 February 1915 Killed in action Western Front.
Died 1 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Ernest Stevens. Unit: 1st Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany’s). Death: 01 February 1915 Killed in action whilst out at night with a trench-digging party. Western Front
Died 1 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Harold Norton Clifton. Unit: 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards. Death: 01 February 1915 Died of wounds Western Front
Died 1 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Joseph Allan Carter Wood. Unit: Special Reserve, attached to 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards. Death: 01 February 1915 Killed in Action in the trenches near Cuinchy during a German attack. Western Front
Died 1 February 1915
Imperial War Museum