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!
THE DEPLOYMENT OF THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE TO FRANCE, AUGUST-OCTOBER 1914
11 October 1914
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
11 October 1915
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
11 October 1915
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
11 October 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Laurence Clerke Brown. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Death: 11 October 1915 Loos Western Front
Died 11 October 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Ernest Meredith McGregor 2880. Unit: 8th Battalion, 2nd Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 11 October 1915 Government Hospital Suez Egypt & Palestine
Died 11 October 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Francis Nicholas Andrews. Unit: 15th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. Death: 11 October 1915 Western Front
Died 11 October 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Charles Eustace Dixon King MC. Unit: 2nd Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Death: 11 October 1916 Western Front.
Died 11 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant (Acting Captain) Ronald Leslie Piper MC MID. Unit: 57th Wildes Rifles (Frontier Force), attached to 129th Duke of Connaughts Own Baluchis, Indian Army. Death: 11 October 1917 East Africa
Died 11 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colonel George Everard Hope MC. Unit: 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards, attached to the 1st/8th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers. Death: 11 October 1917, missing in action, Western Front.
Died 11 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Michael J. Harvey 4/3971/38010. Unit: 23rd (Tyneside Scottish) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 11 October 1917, killed in action, Western Front.
Died 11 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Frederick Streather 43501. Unit: 9th (North Irish Horse) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers. Death: 11 October 1918 Killed in action at Dadizeele Western Front
Died 11 October 1918
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant George Walkin E James Erskine. Unit: 1st Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. Served in France from 11 October 1918. Death: Not known
Died 11 October 1918
Imperial War Museum