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 Robert Henderson Begg , Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 24 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Corporal George Walter Mynett SR/9759, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 24 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Albert Andrew Johnston 1050A. Unit: 41st Battalion, attached to D Company, 9th Australian Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 24 December 1915 died of wounds at Delville Wood, Western Front. Son of Charles and Amelia Anne Johnston.
Died 24 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Clarence Jerrard Symes 1969, Sussex Yeomanry
Died 24 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Edgar Moffet Sirett 2922, 1/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 24 December 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Edgar Moffett Sirett 2922. Unit: D Company, 15th Battalion, London Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own Civil Service Rifles). Death: 24 December 1915 Wounded at Hohenzollern Redoubt 23 December 1915; died at 18 Casualty Clearing Station. Western Fro
Died 24 December 1915
Imperial War Museum