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 Harold Christopher Richmond MID. Unit: 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Death: 25 January 1915 Western Front
Died 25 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain John Beresford Campbell DSO. Unit: 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards. Death: 25 January 1915 Wounded and Missing in action Givenchy Western Front
Died 25 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Company Sergeant Major (Acting) William Joshua Ellott 1517. Unit: Right Flank Company, 1st Battalion, Scots Guards. Death: 25 January 1915 La Bassee Missing in action Western Front
Died 25 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Arthur Horace Lang. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, attached to the Scots Guards. Death: 25 January 1915, Cuinchy, Flanders, Western Front.
Died 25 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Geoffrey Valentine Francis Monckton. Unit: 1st Battalion, Scots Guards. Death: 25 January 1915 Near La Bassee Western Front
Died 25 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Kenneth Buist. Unit: B Company, 1st Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders). Death: 25 January 1915 Cuinchy Western Front. Son of Colonel F. B. Buist, of Swalcliffe Lea, Banbury, Oxon.
Died 25 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant William Leonard Ringrose Hatch. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers. Death: 25 January 1915, killed in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 25 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Ivan Stanley Eades 11352. Unit: 3rd Company, 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards. Death: 25 January 1915 Missing in action Western Front
Died 25 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant (Temporary) Malcolm Ernest Callard. Unit: Reserve of Officers, attached to 1st Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Death: 25 January 1915 Killed in action at Beuvry Western Front
Died 25 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Charles Gordon Mills MID. Unit: 1st Company, 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards. Death: 25 January 1915, La Basse, Western Front.
Died 25 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Clive William Murray-Menzies. Unit: 1st Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highanders). Death: 25 January 1915 Western Front age at death 20
Died 25 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Gareth Hamilton-Fletcher. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, attached to the 1st Battalion, Scots Guards. Death: 25 January 1915, Cuinchy, Western Front.
Died 25 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Gareth Hamilton-Fletcher. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, attached to the 1st Battalion, Scots Guards. Death: 25 January 1915, Cuinchy, Western Front.
Died 25 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant George Carlyon Armstrong. Unit: Special Reserve, attached to 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards. Death: 25 January 1915 Quinchy Western Front
Died 25 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Maurice William Hand. Unit: 1st Battalion, Cheshire Regiment. Death: 25 January 1915, killed in action, West Flanders, Western Front.
Died 25 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
25 January 1917
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
25 January 1917
Imperial War Museum
Gunner Herbert Laurence Kitchen 15069. Unit: 15th Company, Machine Gun Corps. Death: 25 January 1917 Western Front.
Died 25 January 1917
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
25 January 1918
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
25 January 1918
Imperial War Museum