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!
Lieutenant Herbert Hugo Schneider. Unit: Royal Engineers, Survey Department. Death: 05 December 1914 Killed in action in the Cameroons Cameroon & Togoland
Died 5 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
THE ROYAL NAVY MOBILE ANTI-AIRCRAFT BRIGADE AT KENWOOD HOUSE 1915-1916
5 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
5 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
5 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Cacolets: Wounded being Conveyed over the Hill of Judaea to the Casualty Clearing Station in Covered-In Stretchers (cacolets) on
the Backs of Camels
5 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Captain Leysters Llewellyn Greener MC. Unit: 2nd/6th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Death: 5 December 1917, Western Front. Commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial.
Died 5 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Harry Whitworth. Unit: 15th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, attached to Royal Flying Corps. Death: 05 December 1917 Missing in Action Western Front
Died 5 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Nathaniel McAteer 51082. Unit: 11th Squadron, Machine Gun Corps (Cavalry). Death: 05 December 1917 Western Front
Died 5 December 1917
Imperial War Museum