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!
Captain E F Wakeford. Unit: 5th or 6th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment. Death: 23 February 1915 Died Western Front
Died 23 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Norman Fraser DSO. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders. Death: 23 February 1915, Western Front.
Died 23 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Samuel Tudor Barr. Unit: 3rd (King's Own) Hussars, attached to 20th Hussars. Death: 23 February 1915 Rouen Western Front
Died 23 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Kenneth Frost. Unit: 1st Battalion, the Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Death: 23 February 1915, Zillebeke, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 23 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Cuthbert Patrick Bell. Unit: 9th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment. Death: 23 February 1918
Died 23 February 1918
Imperial War Museum