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 Percy Trevenen Mills. Unit: 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, attached 1st Battalion, The Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Death: 08 February 1915 Western Front
Died 8 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Wilfred Innocent Maunsell. Unit: Adjutant, 2nd Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Death: 08 February 1915 Western Front
Died 8 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Charles Melville Cottrell-Dormer DSO. Unit: 3rd Company, 3rd Battalion, Coldstream Guards. Death: 08 February 1915 Wounded on 6 February 1915 at La Basee Died of wounds at Bethune, Western Front
Died 8 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
Major John Harold Slade Powell. Unit: Royal Field Artillery. Death: 08 February 1915 Western Front
Died 8 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
8 February 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
8 February 1916
Imperial War Museum
Captain Frank Bernard Roberts. Unit: 9th Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Death: 08 February 1916 Western Front
Died 8 February 1916
Imperial War Museum
Wired-Off Terrace for Exercise in Bad Weather for Civillian POWs near London
8 February 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Arthur Smith G/18756. Unit: 11th Battalion, Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), formerly Royal Fusiliers. Death: 08 February 1917 Missing Western Front
Died 8 February 1917
Imperial War Museum