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!
Major Alexander Harvie Maclean. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Princess Louise’s (Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders). Death: 20 August 1914 Missing Western Front
Died 20 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
THE DEPLOYMENT OF THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE TO FRANCE, AUGUST-OCTOBER 1914
20 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
THE DEPLOYMENT OF THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE TO FRANCE, AUGUST-OCTOBER 1914
20 August 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Geoffrey Stephen Walley. Unit: 5th Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Kings Royal Rifle Corps. Death: 20 August 1916 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 20 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Geoffrey Stephen Walley. Unit: 5th Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Kings Royal Rifle Corps. Death: 20 August 1916 Western Front
Died 20 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Frederick John Thompson 3959. Unit: 6th Battalion, Australian Expeditionary Force. Death: 20 August 1916 Died of wounds at 3 Casualty Clearing St ation Western Front
Died 20 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private George Grant Geddes Angus 4127. Unit: D Company, 1st Pioneer Battalion, 1st Australian Division, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 20 August 1916 Western Front
Died 20 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Norman John McLeod 3395. Unit: 14th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 20 August 1916 Western Front
Died 20 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Nevill Lindsay Young. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment. Death: 20 August 1916 at the Battle of the Somme Western Front
Died 20 August 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Cecil Brannon Payne. Unit: Royal Field Artillery, attached to No. 21 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 20 August 1917, Western Front.
Died 20 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Cecil Brannon Payne. Unit: Royal Field Artillery, attached to No. 21 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 20 August 1917, Western Front.
Died 20 August 1917
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Harold Farquhar Young. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, att. 43rd Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 20 August 1917 Near Lens with Pilot 2nd Lieutenant J E Winser
Died 20 August 1917
Imperial War Museum