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!
AIRCRAFT AND BALLOONS USED BY SOME OF THE AIR PIONEERS WHO WERE CONTEMPORARY WITH SAMUEL FRANKLIN CODY.
17 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
Gunner Ambrose Richard Alick 690, Bermuda Militia Artillery
Died 17 February 1915
Lives of the First World War
Gunner Charles Wentford Dill 245, Bermuda Militia Artillery
Died 17 February 1915
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Donald Keith Forbes. Unit: 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Death: 17 February 1915, Ypres, Western Front.
Died 17 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Haldane Day Stokes Member of the Victorian Order. Unit: 2nd Battalion, The King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment). Death: 17 February 1915 Wounded retaking a trench captured by the enemy, and died shortly afterwards. Western Front
Died 17 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Charles Tapner 9293, East Yorkshire Regiment
Died 17 February 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Frederick Thomas Ellis M2/034181, Army Service Corps
Died 17 February 1915
Lives of the First World War