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!
Brotanweisung - Kundmachung - Pancsova - Mehrsprachiges Plakat
13 April 1915
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library
Captain Frederick James Chadwick MID. Unit: 104th Wellesley's Rifles, Indian Army. Death: 13 April 1915 Killed in action MesopataMissing in action
Died 13 April 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Raymond Kirkwood Ledger. Unit: 6th Battalion (Reserve) Rifle Brigade, (The Prince Consort’s Own) attached , 1st Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Death: 13 April 1915 Near Neuve Chapelle Western Front
Died 13 April 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant William Glymne Charles Gladstone. Unit: 1st Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers. Death: 13 April 1915, Western Front.
Died 13 April 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant William Glynne Charles Gladstone, M.P. , 3rd Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 13 April 1915
Lives of the First World War
Major George Godfrey Massy Wheeler VC , Cavalry/ Hariana Lancers
Died 13 April 1915
Lives of the First World War
Major George Godfrey Massy Wheeler VC. Unit: 7th Hariana Lancers, Indian Army. Death: 13 April 1915 Killed in Action at Shaiba Mesopotamia
Died 13 April 1915
Imperial War Museum
Miss Zina Blackburn, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of scarlet fever contracted on duty 13 April 1915.
Died 13 April 1915
Imperial War Museum
Miss Zina Blackburn, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of scarlet fever contracted on duty 13 April 1915.
Died 13 April 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Robert Charles William Leavens 9492, Shropshire Light Infantry
Died 13 April 1915
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Charles Aubrey Vintcent. Unit: 5th (Reserve) atached 4th Battalion, Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort’s Own). Death: 13 April 1915 At Ypres Western Front
Died 13 April 1915
Imperial War Museum