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 Arthur Derisley Martin , attached to the 47th Sikhs
Died 17 April 1916
Lives of the First World War
Captain Edward Fleetwood Berry, M.C. , 1/9th Gurkha Rifles
Died 17 April 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Frederick Skelton 9251, Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 17 April 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private George Abner Kelly 185. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 17 April 1916 at No. 1 Australian Auxilliary Hospital Harefield, England .
Died 17 April 1916
Imperial War Museum