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!
Corporal Arnold Simkin Jennings 59897, Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 21 December 1918
Lives of the First World War
Gunner Harold Allen 305508, Canadian Field Artillery
Died 21 December 1918
Lives of the First World War
La rue Royale et la Madeleine décorées des drapeaux alliés, Paris (VIIIe arr.), France, A 42 140
21 décembre 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La rue Royale et la Madeleine décorées des drapeaux alliés, Paris (VIIIe arr.), France, A 42 141
21 décembre 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La rue Royale et la Madeleine décorées des drapeaux alliés, Paris (VIIIe arr.), France, A 42 142
21 décembre 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
La rue Royale et la Madeleine décorées des drapeaux alliés, Paris (VIIIe arr.), France, A 42 143
21 décembre 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Le soldat Boué, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 15 084
21 décembre 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Le soldat Bouvier, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 15 081
21 décembre 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Le soldat Peuteuil, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 15 087
21 décembre 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Le soldat Praizy, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, A 15 078
21 décembre 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
L\'hôtel de Crillon décoré des drapeaux alliés, place de la Concorde, Paris (VIIIe arr.), France, A 42 144 S
21 décembre 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
L\'hôtel de Crillon décoré des drapeaux alliés, place de la Concorde, Paris (VIIIe arr.), France, A 42 145 S
21 décembre 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
L\'hôtel de Crillon et l\'hôtel de la Marine décorés des drapeaux alliés, place de la Concorde, Paris (VIIIe arr.), France, A 42 148
21 décembre 1918
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
Private Alfred George Jones 3/11177, South Wales Borderers Depot
Died 21 December 1918
Lives of the First World War
Private Alfred Thomas Goodridge 3275, South Staffordshire Regiment
Died 21 December 1918
Lives of the First World War
Serjeant David William Tuffley, D.C.M. 1181, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 21 December 1918
Lives of the First World War
THE PROCLAMATION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIAN INDEPENDENCE, OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1918
21 December 1918
Imperial War Museum
THE PROCLAMATION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIAN INDEPENDENCE, OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1918
21 December 1918
Imperial War Museum
THE PROCLAMATION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIAN INDEPENDENCE, OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1918
21 December 1918
Imperial War Museum
THE PROCLAMATION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIAN INDEPENDENCE, OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1918
21 December 1918
Imperial War Museum
THE PROCLAMATION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIAN INDEPENDENCE, OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1918
21 December 1918
Imperial War Museum
THE PROCLAMATION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIAN INDEPENDENCE, OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1918
21 December 1918
Imperial War Museum
THE PROCLAMATION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIAN INDEPENDENCE, OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1918
21 December 1918
Imperial War Museum
THE PROCLAMATION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIAN INDEPENDENCE, OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1918
21 December 1918
Imperial War Museum
THE PROCLAMATION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIAN INDEPENDENCE, OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1918
21 December 1918
Imperial War Museum