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!
Corporal George Gauld Gordon 1433. Unit: "D" Company, 4th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Death: 14 June 1915, Ypres, Western Front.
Died 14 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant David Stewart. Unit: 1st/6th (Morayshire) Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, the Duke of Albany’s). Death: 14 June 1915 Killed in action near Festubert, shot by a sniper while attending to a wounded man. Western Front
Died 14 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Oscar Taunton MC. Unit: 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Field Company, Royal Engineers, Territorial Force. Death: 14 June 1915 Died of wounds at Gallipoli, Mesopotamia Front
Died 14 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Major William Augustus Cumming Fraser. Unit: 1st Battalion, attached to the 2nd Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment. Death: 14 June 1915, Basra, Mesopotamia.
Died 14 June 1915
Imperial War Museum