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 Charles Harry Taylor , West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
Died 17 November 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Frank Parden 23255, The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
Died 17 November 1915
Lives of the First World War
Pte Thornton was educated at Wellington School and Clare College, Cambridge in England. At the outbreak of War in 1914, he was working in Canada and enlisted there as a private in preference to training for a commission. Agood linguist, Pte Thornton ser
Died 17 November 1915
Imperial War Museum
Staff Nurse Mary Ann Rodwell , Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service
Died 17 November 1915
Lives of the First World War
Staff Nurse Mary Rodwell, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve. Drowned when the Hospital Ship Anglia was mined in the English Channel 17 November 1915.
Died 17 November 1915
Imperial War Museum
Staff Nurse Mary Rodwell, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve. Drowned when the Hospital Ship Anglia was mined in the English Channel 17 November 1915.
Died 17 November 1915
Imperial War Museum