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!
Lieutenant Basil Lee Nicholson. Unit: 3rd (Staffordshire) Battery, 2nd (North Midland) Brigade, Royal Artillery. Death: 24 July 1915 Killed in action Western Front
Died 24 July 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Philip Brydges Gutterly Henriques. Unit: 8th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. Death: 24 July 1915, Western Front.
Died 24 July 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Douglas Bruce Mackintosh. Unit: Black Watch, attached to 1st Battalion, King’s African Rifles. Death: 24 July 1916, East Africa.
Died 24 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant C M J Coote. Unit: 1/4th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Death: 24 July 1916 Missing in action
Died 24 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Edward Foster 24951. Unit: "B" Company, 12th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own). Death: 24 July 1916, Arras, Western Front.
Died 24 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private John Lachlan Mackintosh 4365. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 24 July 1916, Pozieres, Somme, Western Front.
Died 24 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Pte Nash, of Victoria, Australia served with A Company. He died on 24 July 1916, aged 21, of wounds received in the Australian charge at Fleurbaix during 19 - 23 July 1916. In this action, which formed part of the Battle of the Somme, Australian troops
Died 24 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Christoper St John Tyrer. Unit: 15th Battalion, Warwickshire Regiment. Death: 24 July 1916 Western Front
Died 24 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
Sergeant Robert Minney (Bob) Inwood 1533. Unit: 10th Infantry Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 3rd Reinforcements, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 24 July 1916, Somme, Western Front.
Died 24 July 1916
Imperial War Museum
A Filtering Plant : water is taken from the Sweetwater Canal, which flows from the Nile, and after being filtered is pumped across the desert. The engineer examines the water in the glass tube.
24 July 1917
Imperial War Museum
Gunner Harold William Boyd 5207. Unit: 4th Battery, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 24 July 1917
Died 24 July 1917
Imperial War Museum