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!
Second Lieutenant Alexander Maurice Gordon. Unit: 1st Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 21 January 1916, missing, Ypres, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 21 January 1916
Imperial War Museum
Captain James William Albert Simpson MC. Unit: 36th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 21 January 1917 Western Front
Died 21 January 1917
Imperial War Museum
Miss F Denison, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of illness 21 January 1917.
Died 21 January 1917
Imperial War Museum
Miss F Denison, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of illness 21 January 1917.
Died 21 January 1917
Imperial War Museum