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 Robert Edward Michael Pakenham. Unit: Reserve of Officers, attached to 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers,. Death: 17 January 1915 Western Front
Died 17 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Jim Walden Fortune McNaught-Davis. Unit: 1st Battalion, South Wales Borderers. Death: 17 January 1915 Died of wounds at Givenchy Western Front
Died 17 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Miss Mary Thompson Kerr, Territorial Force Nursing Service. Died of pneumonia contracted on duty 17 January 1915.
Died 17 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Miss Mary Thompson Kerr, Territorial Force Nursing Service. Died of pneumonia contracted on duty 17 January 1915.
Died 17 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
17 January 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Eric Wykeham Birch MC. Unit: 4th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment), attached to Machine Gun Corps. Death: 17 January 1917 Western Front
Died 17 January 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Hugh Godfrey De Lisle Bush MC. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Death: 17 January 1917 Western Front
Died 17 January 1917
Imperial War Museum
Our 'Chip' House, France, 17th January 1917;
Trees, France, 18th January 1917
17 January 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Henry Lawrence. Unit: 5th Battalion, attached 6th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 17 January 1917 Western Front
Died 17 January 1917
Imperial War Museum