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 Cuthbert Francis Hodding. Unit: 4th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. Death: 8 December 1918, died at Salisbury, Home Front.
Died 8 December 1918
Imperial War Museum
Gunner Thomas Breckell 84783, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 8 December 1918
Lives of the First World War
Le Nœud, vu de dos, Geispolsheim, France, A 15 227
8 décembre 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Private Cyril Littlejohn 120989, Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
Died 8 December 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private William Albert Samuel Dallimore 28385, Somerset Light Infantry
Died 8 December 1918
Lives of the First World War
Stoker 1st Class Victor Jordan K22513, HMS INDOMITABLE
Died 8 December 1918
Lives of the First World War
Une jeune fille, Emilie Speisser et une fillette, Sophie Thier, Geispolsheim, Bas-Rhin, France, A 15 222 X
8 décembre 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine