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 James Wilfred Battersby MC. Unit: 53rd Battery, 2nd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 24 October 1916, Somme, France.
Died 24 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Captain Leslie Porter. Unit: 45th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 24 October 1916 Missing Western Front
Died 24 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Arthur Willam Campbell Connal. Unit: 53rd Battery, 38th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 24 October 1916, missing, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 24 October 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Barcroft Joseph Leech Fayle , Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 24 October 1916
Lives of the First World War