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!
Lance Corporal Maurice Sidney Felgate 1462, Suffolk Yeomanry
Died 22 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Albert Bowen Evans 2259, 1/15th London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 22 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Herbert Stuart Chambers Eakin 1124, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 22 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Percival Harry Lindridge 3775, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 22 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Robert Edward Riley 946. Unit: C Company, 26th Battalion, 7th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 22 December 1915 Died of pneumonia at St Ignatius Hospital Malta Gallipoli / Dardanelles
Died 22 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Alfred Victor Smith VC , East Lancashire Regiment
Died 22 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Reginald Ambler Sarsby , Norfolk Regiment
Died 22 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Staff Nurse Ada Stanley, Territorial Force Nursing Service. Died of illness contracted on duty 22 December 1915.
Died 22 December 1915
Imperial War Museum