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 Serjeant Samuel B Vigrass 22748, Army Ordnance Corps
Died 2 December 1918
Lives of the First World War
Corporal Arthur Hubert Bradley T6944, Royal Engineers
Died 2 December 1918
Lives of the First World War
Deck Hand Alexander McLeod DA 12625, Royal Naval Reserve - HMS Pekin
Died 2 December 1918
Lives of the First World War
Hôpital de base britannique dans le bois de Boulogne, Boulogne, France, A 15 046
2 décembre 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Hôpital de base britannique dans le bois de Boulogne, Boulogne, France, A 15 047
2 décembre 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
McLaren family picking Christmas Bells at Lime Burners Creek - Port Macquarie, NSW, 2 December 1918, by Harry McLaren
Taken 2 Dec 1918
State Library of New South Wales collection
Miss Daisy M Goddard, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died December 1918 02 December 1918.
Died 2 December 1918
Imperial War Museum
Private George Rivett 206052, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
Died 2 December 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private William C Newell 288639, Employment Company Labour Corps
Died 2 December 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private William H Guard 28863, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
Died 2 December 1918
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Arthur Webb Butler Bentley , Yorkshire Regiment
Died 2 December 1918
Lives of the First World War