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 (Temporary) Walter James. Unit: 10th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry. Death: 25 June 1915 Ypres Western Front.
Died 25 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Company Serjeant Major Ernest Brazileir 7991, South Lancashire Regiment
Died 25 June 1915
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Arthur Horace Lang. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, attached Scots Guards. Death: 25 June 1915 At Cuinchy Flanders Western Front
Died 25 June 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas McCulloch , Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 25 June 1915
Lives of the First World War