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 Henry Buckle. Unit: Royal Field Artillery. Death: 04 October 1914 From wounds received 26 August Cambrai Western Front buried in Cologne, Germany as POW. Son of Henry Buckle.
Died 4 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Corporal Henry Walter Mead 46992, Royal Field Artillery
Died 4 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Harold Charles Boyle 5051. Unit: 6th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 04 October 1914 Passchendaele Western Front. Son of John and Elizabeth Boyle, of "Verdantvale," North Boort, Victoria.
Died 4 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant James Francis Roy Gebbie , South Lancashire Regiment
Died 4 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant James Francis Roy Gebbie. Unit: 2nd Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment. Death: 4 October 1914, Western Front.
Died 4 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Private Albert Rudolph Percy 470, West Somerset Yeomanry
Died 4 October 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private Frank Henry Dumper 7887, South Wales Borderers
Died 4 October 1914
Lives of the First World War