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 Miles Radcliffe. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Border Regiment. Death: 12 December 1914 Ypres shot through heart Western Front
Died 12 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Hugh Peter Hartnoll. Unit: 1st Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Death: 12 December 1914, killed in action near Neuve Chapelle, Western Front. Commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial.
Died 12 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
12 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
12 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
12 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Austin James Condon 608. Unit: Machine Gun Section, 24th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 12 December 1915 Killed in action
Died 12 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Corporal Thomas James Wright 2467. Unit: C Company, 59th Battalion, 15th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 12 December 1916 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 12 December 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private George Edward Jeffs 3362A. Unit: 6th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 12 December 1916 Western Front. Son of George Edward and Ellen Jeffs, of Won Wron, Victoria. Born at Boodyarn, Victoria.
Died 12 December 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private John Crichton 287. Unit: 18th Battalion, attached to 2nd Pioneers, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 12 December 1916 Died of wounds Western Front
Died 12 December 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Peter McKellar 4949. Unit: 58th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 12 December 1916 Western Front
Died 12 December 1916
Imperial War Museum
J M Kirk, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of strain and overwork 12 December 1917.
Died 12 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
J M Kirk, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of strain and overwork 12 December 1917.
Died 12 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
The Black Watch Guard on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem
12 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lenna M Jenner, Canadian Army Medical Corps. Died December 1918 12 December 1918.
Died 12 December 1918
Imperial War Museum