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!
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
5 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain George Herbert Hastings. Unit: 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 5 February 1915, Western Front.
Died 5 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
Drummer Albert Henry Whitby 8957, North Staffordshire Regiment
Died 5 February 1915
Lives of the First World War
Major Thomas Robert Eaton Wybault Warren-Swettenham. Unit: 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 05 February 1915 Killed in action near St.Eloi Western Front
Died 5 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
Ordinary Seaman Herbert Moir Clyde Z/3235, 4th Battalion Royal Naval Division
Died 5 February 1915
Lives of the First World War