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!
Brot und Gebäck - Kundmachung - Lemberg - Mehrsprachiges Plakat
26 August 1915
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library
Captain Edward Villiers Briscoe MID. Unit: 1st Battalion, attached to 10th Battalion (as Adjutant), Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Death: 26 August 1915 Western Front
Died 26 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Company Sergeant Major Robert H Coates 7035, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Died 26 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Corporal John Hart 1002. Unit: 14th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 26 August 1915, killed in action at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, Dardanelles. Commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial.
Died 26 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Arthur Frances King G 4066, Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 26 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Stanford L Lambert 2106, Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 26 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Raymond Francis Tathan Burrell , 8th Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 26 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Walter Winkworth , Northumberland Fusiliers
Died 26 August 1915
Lives of the First World War