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!
BRITISH RESPONSE TO THE OUTBREAK OF WAR AUGUST 1914: RECRUITING AND SCENES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 1914
6 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
BRITISH RESPONSE TO THE OUTBREAK OF WAR AUGUST 1914: RECRUITING AND SCENES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 1914
6 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
SERVICE OF CAPTAIN DAVID SUTHERLAND WITH THE 1/5TH SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS
6 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain A V Thomas. Unit: 11th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, attached 2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. Death: 06 August 1915 Missing in action Gallipoli/Dardanelles
Died 6 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Edward Home Popham. Unit: 13th Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. Death: 06 August 1915 Gallipoli
Died 6 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain William Barras Hore. Unit: 120th Rajputana Infantry, Indian Army, attached to the 9th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 06 August 1915, missing in action at Lala Baba, Gallipoli, Dardanelles. Commemorated on the Helles Memorial.
Died 6 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Clive Scotland Harding. Unit: 11th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, attached to the 2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. Death: 6 August 1915, missing in action at Achi Baba, Gallipoli, Dardanelles. Commemorated on the Helles Memorial.
Died 6 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Frederick George Byam Thomas. Unit: CCompany, 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment. Death: 06 August 1915 Gallipoli/Dardanelles
Died 6 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant John Charles Gardom. Unit: 12th Battalion, attached to the 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment. Death: 6 August 1915, Gallipoli, Dardanelles.
Died 6 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lt Mills received his commission in September 1914 shortly after the outbreak of War and was promoted to full lieutenant the following December. He was posted to the Dardanelles and was killed in action, aged 21, at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli on 6 August 1915.
Died 6 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Albert Howard Anderson 414. Unit: D Company, 4th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 06 August 1915 Lone Pine Dardanelles
Died 6 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private George James Featonby 2368. Unit: 7th Reinforcements, 11th Battalion, 4th Infantry Brigade, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 6 August 1915, Lone Pine, Gallipoli, Dardanelles.
Died 6 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Harry Daly Black 1453. Unit: 2nd Reinforcements, 2nd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 06 August 1915 Lone Pine Dardanelles
Died 6 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Samuel Thomas Gladson Maddock 1564 or 1784. Unit: A Company, 8th Battalion, 2nd Australian Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 06 August 1915 Gallipoli
Died 6 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private William Cargill 2129. Unit: 4th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 06 August 1915 to 09 August 1915 Killed in action Gallipoli
Died 6 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private William P Turner 598. Unit: CCompany, 1st Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 06 August 1915 Gallipoli/Dardanelles
Died 6 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant George Duncan Armitage. Unit: 11th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, attached to 2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. Death: 06 August 1915 Achi Baba Dardanelles
Died 6 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Sergeant Nicholas Thomas Cosgrove 903. Unit: D Company, 3rd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 06 August 1915 Killed in action at Lone Pine Gallipoli
Died 6 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Trooper Duncan Mark Maclaren 1182. Unit: 10th Light Horse, 3rd Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 06 August 1915 Gallipoli
Died 6 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Corporal John William Jones 32. Unit: 4th Company, 24th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 06 August 1916 Egypt and Palestine.
Died 6 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Dugald McLean 4668. Unit: 48th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 06 August 1916 Western Front
Died 6 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Harry Rees 3752. Unit: B Company, 48th Battalion (late 16th), 12th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 06 August 1916 Pozieres Western Front
Died 6 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private John Constantine Lamont 1741. Unit: A Coy, 46th Battalion, 12th Brigade Australian Imperial Force. Death: 06 August 1916 At Poziers Ridge Western Front
Died 6 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Oliver James Harmon 4791. Unit: 4th Pioneers, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 6 August 1916, killed in action at Pozieres, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
Died 6 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
REST AND RECREATION IN THE BRITISH ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
6 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
REST AND RECREATION IN THE BRITISH ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
6 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
REST AND RECREATION IN THE BRITISH ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
6 August 1917
Imperial War Museum