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!
AVIATION IN BRITAIN BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR: THE WORK OF SAMUEL FRANKLIN CODY IN AIRSHIP, KITE AND AIRCRAFT AERONAUTICS 1903 - 1913
11 August 1913
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Louis Leyson Rees-Mogg. Unit: Royal Engineers (Reserve of Officers). Death: 11 August 1915 Suvla Bay Gallipoli / Dardanelles
Died 11 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant George Hanson Wheatcroft. Unit: 16th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 11 August 1915 Killed in Action near Mailly-Maillet Western Front
Died 11 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Trooper John Francis Dean 88. Unit: 8th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 11 August 1915 Killed in action at Lone Pine Gallipoli.
Died 11 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Cecil Maitland Foss MC. Unit: 28th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 11 August 1916, Pozieres, Western Front.
Died 11 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Captain Cecil Maitland Foss MC. Unit: 28th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 11 August 1916, Pozieres, Western Front.
Died 11 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Captain Francis Maxwell Barton. Unit: A Company, 13th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 11 August 1916 Mouquet Farm Western Front
Died 11 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Evelyn C Y St V Nepean MC 423. Unit: Honourable Artillery Company, attached to Royal Field Artillery. Commissioned on 11 August 1916. Death: Not known.
Died 11 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Captain Henry Laurence Slingsby MC. Unit: 2nd Battalion, King’s Own Light Infantry, attached to 10th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry as Adjutant. Death: 11 August 1917 Died of wounds in Flanders Western Front
Died 11 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Herbert Allen 230549. Unit: 5th Platoon, B Company, 1st/2nd Battalion, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers). Death: 11 August 1917 Missing Western Front
Died 11 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant David Beynon Davies. Unit: General List, attached to 52nd Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 11 August 1917 Missing in action Western Front
Died 11 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Leonard Marshall 25781. Unit: 1st Battalion, Liverpool Regiment, 6th Brigade. Death: 11 August 1917 Western Front
Died 11 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Captain Horatio Alfred Fane MC. Unit: 1/1st Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars. Death: 11 August 1918, Western Front.
Died 11 August 1918
Imperial War Museum