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!
Lieutenant (Temporary) Rupert Edward Gascoyne-Cecil. Unit: 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Death: 11 July 1915 Killed in action Ypres,Western Front
Died 11 July 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Stuart Eskin Birrell. Unit: 6th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry. Death: 11 July 1916, Western Front. Commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
Died 11 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colonel Oswald Swift Flower. Unit: 13th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Death: 11 July 1916, Mametz Wood, Somme, Western Front.
Died 11 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lt Light was educated at Monkton Combe School, near Bath and Hertford College, Oxford. He enlisted with No 4 Officers Cadet Battalion at Oxford on 11 July 1916 while the Battle of the Somme was in progress on the Western Front. He received his commissio
Died 11 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lt Oliver was reported missing, aged 34, on 11 July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 11 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Hugh Alexander Small MC. Unit: 20th Battalion, King’s Liverpool Regiment. Death: 11 July 1916 Killed in action at Trones Wood Western Front
Died 11 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Arthur Davies Lang Browne. Unit: 1st Battalion, Connaught Rangers. Death: 11 July 1917 Gallipoli
Died 11 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Montague Frank Peyton. Unit: 16th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 11 July 1917 Western Front
Died 11 July 1917
Imperial War Museum