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!
Brigadier-General Charles FitzClarence VC. Unit: Commander of the 1st Guards Brigade. Death: 12 November 1914, killed in action near Gheluvelt, Western Front.
Died 12 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Keith Bethune Mackenzie. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs,The Duke of Albany’s). Death: 12 November 1914 Western Front
Died 12 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Albert Tyler MID. Unit: Royal Engineers. Death: 12 November 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 12 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Charles Alexander Kenneth Anderson. Unit: C Company, 1st Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, attached to 1st Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers. Death: 12 November 1914 Ypres Western Front
Died 12 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Francis Pepys DSO, MID. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Death: 12 November 1914 Western Front
Died 12 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Brigadier General Duncan John Glasfurd. Unit: Commanding 12th Australian Infantry Brigade (4th Division), Australian Imperial Force. Death: 12 November 1916, Somme, Western Front.
Died 12 November 1916
Imperial War Museum
Captain Douglas Weir. Unit: Canadian Forestry Corps. Death: 12 November 1918 Died the day after the war ended and buried in Edinburgh (Comely Bank) Cemetery. Home Front
Died 12 November 1918
Imperial War Museum