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!
Lieutenant (Acting) Harold Worsley Whittle. Unit: Royal Naval Reserve, HM Tug Char.. Death: 16 January 1915 Died when the tug “Char†collided with s.s.â€Erivan†off Deal Home Waters
Died 16 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant (acting) Robert Percy Melsome. Unit: HM Tug Char, Royal Naval Reserve. Death: 16 January 1915 English Channel
Died 16 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lt Sharp was commissioned on 16 January 1915. For reasons unrecorded but probably as a consequence of wounds received, he was placed on retired pay on 5 May 1917 and remained so for the rest of the War.
Died 16 January 1915
Imperial War Museum