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!
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
20 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
20 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
Bombardier Gordon Arnold Leslie Fuller 89371, Royal Field Artillery
Died 20 September 1916
Lives of the First World War
Gunner Timothy Doyle 1158. Unit: Australian Trench Mortar Battery, 5th Division, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 20 September 1916 Western Front. Son of Michael and Elizabeth Doyle, of Cobbora St., Dubbo, New South Wales.
Died 20 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Keith Alexander 26607. Unit: 9th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 20 September 1916, Martinpuich, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 20 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Richard Bishop 18489, King's Own Scottish Borderers
Died 20 September 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Richard Grenville Caton 49122, Cheshire Regiment
Died 20 September 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Edward Leicester Stuart Astwood , Royal Fusiliers (City Of London Regiment)
Died 20 September 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Hubert John Dickinson. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Death: 20 September 1916.
He was reported wounded and missing, aged 25, on the night of 19/20 September 1916. He is buried at Point-du-Jour Military Cemetery, Athies.
Died 20 September 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant John Northley Julian Powlesland , London Regiment (City of London Rifles)
Died 20 September 1916
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant James B Wiseman 1644/5, Gordon Highlanders
Died 20 September 1916
Lives of the First World War