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!
Lance Corporal Hurtle Samuel Mills 105. Unit: Machine Gun Section, 38th Battalion, 10th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 08 December 1916 Near Armentieres Western Front
Died 8 December 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lance Serjeant Frederick Richard Hartnell 1217, Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 8 December 1916
Lives of the First World War
Major ATTWOOD ALFRED TORRENS , Royal Field Artillery
Died 8 December 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Lazarus Hewitt 13/415, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 8 December 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Roy Cecil Glover 3142. Unit: 52nd Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Expeditionary Force. Death: 8 December 1916, Leicester, Britain.
Died 8 December 1916
Imperial War Museum
Rifleman Horace Septimus Wilson 6273, London Regiment
Died 8 December 1916
Lives of the First World War