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 Arthur Winn. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Death: 09 September 1914 Killed in Action near Soissons Western Front
Died 9 September 1914
Imperial War Museum
Private Alexander Coleman 9006, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
Died 9 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Arthur Grant Bourne Chittenden , Manchester Regiment
Died 9 September 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Arthur Grant Bourne Chittenden. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment. Death: 09 September 1914 Died of wounds Western Front
Died 9 September 1914
Imperial War Museum