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!
Captain Charles Vernon Leslie Poe. Unit: 4th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps. Death: 02 March 1915 Western Front
Died 2 March 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Walter Drummond Vyvyan. Unit: 2nd Battalion, The King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. Death: 02 March 1915 Western Front
Died 2 March 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Reginald Leopold Cooper 9335, 1/5th London Regiment
Died 2 March 1915
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Francis Clifford Bird. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry. Death: 02 March 1915 St Eloi Western Front. Son of Francis and Mary Bird, of Cotswold, Winchcombe, Glos.
Died 2 March 1915
Imperial War Museum