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!
Acting Corporal Harry Dougherty 3/3885, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 2 September 1915
Lives of the First World War
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
2 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
2 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
2 September 1915
Imperial War Museum
Colonel Richard Linton , 5th Australian Infantry Brigade Staff
Died 2 September 1915
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal John Short 2850, Lincolnshire Regiment
Died 2 September 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Frederick George Davis 2768, London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 2 September 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Horace Carl Harton 25. Unit: "B" Company, 23rd Battalion, 6th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 2 September 1915, killed when the transport ship HMT Southland was torpedoed off Isle of Lemnos in the Aegean Sea on the way to Gallipoli, Dar
Died 2 September 1915
Imperial War Museum