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!
2nd-Lieutenant Sir Roland James Corbet, Baronet , Coldstream Guards
Died 15 April 1915
Lives of the First World War
Brotkarten - Kundmachung - Laibach - In slowenischer Sprache
15 April 1915
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library
Captain Francis Lloyd Dyer. Unit: 93rd Burma Infantry, Indian Army. Death: 15 April 1915 Mesopotamia, missing in action. Son of John and Grace Dyer.
Died 15 April 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain William Leonard Reid. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment. Death: 15 April 1915 Shaiba Mesopotamia
Died 15 April 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Xavier Britten MID. Unit: 2nd in Command, 110th Mahratta Light Infantry, Indian Army. Death: 15 April 1915 Shaiba Mesopotamia
Died 15 April 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Thomas Lancelot Gawain Turnbull 1549, Honourable Artillery Company
Died 15 April 1915
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Arthur Cyril Brickwood. Unit: 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment. Death: 15 April 1915 France Western Front. Son of Sir John and Lady Brickwood, of Hindhead and Portsmouth.
Died 15 April 1915
Imperial War Museum