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 Ernest Nevill Jourdain. Unit: 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Death: 16 February 1915 Western Front.
Died 16 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
Corporal Berkeley Thomas Tivey SD/741, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 16 February 1915
Lives of the First World War
Erzeugung und Verkauf von Gebäck aus Weizenmehl – Reichenberg
16 February 1915
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library
Flight Lieutenant Desmond O’Brien. Unit: Royal Naval Air Service. Death: 16 February 1915 North Sea
Died 16 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
Flight Sub Lieutenant Thomas Spencer. Unit: Royal Naval Air Service. Death: 16 February 1915 Missing when he was piloting a seaplane in the raid on Zeebrugge. No. of his machine 817. Western Front
Died 16 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Hilary Gresford Evan-Jones MID. Unit: 1st Battalion, Welsh Regiment. Death: 16 February 1915 Killed in action Western Front.
Died 16 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Reginald Thomas Buckingham Pope. Unit: 1st Battalion, The Welsh Regiment. Death: 16 February 1915 Western Front
Died 16 February 1915
Imperial War Museum