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!
AVIATION IN BRITAIN BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR: THE WORK OF SAMUEL FRANKLIN CODY IN AIRSHIP, KITE AND AIRCRAFT AERONAUTICS 1903 - 1913
5 October 1907
Imperial War Museum
THE DEPLOYMENT OF THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE TO FRANCE, AUGUST-OCTOBER 1914
5 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
THE DEPLOYMENT OF THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE TO FRANCE, AUGUST-OCTOBER 1914
5 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
Private Frederick George Carlton 19282. Unit: 2nd Platoon, 10th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment), 23rd Division. Death: 5 October 1916, missing, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 5 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Lyle Sanderson Dimsey. Unit: 37th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 05 October 1917 Wounded at Passchendael 4 October 1917 Western Front.
Died 5 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Albert Victor Thompson 5689. Unit: CCompany, 22nd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 05 October 1917 Killed in action Western Front
Died 5 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Ernest Coates 37648. Unit: 13th Platoon, D Company, 12th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Death: 05 October 1917 Missing in action Western Front
Died 5 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Norman Leslie Howe 5107. Unit: 7th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 5 October 1917, wounded on 4 October 1917 at Passchendaele, died at No. 10 Casualty Clearing Station, Western Front.
Died 5 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Corporal Arthur Norman Swann 48483. Unit: Signal Section, Royal Engineers, 64th Infantry Brigade, 21st Division. Death: 05 October 1917 Missing in action Western Front
Died 5 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Gerald Stanway. Unit: 5th Battalion, attached to 7th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment, attached to 11th Division Headquarters. Death: 05 October 1917 Died of wounds received on the Belgian front Western Front
Died 5 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Miss Annie Popplewell, Women's Land Army. Died as the result of a ploughing accident 05 October 1918.
Died 5 October 1918
Imperial War Museum