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!
Shipwright First Class George Waggett 343008. Unit: Royal Navy, HMS Bulwark. Death: 26 November 1914 Killed when the Pre-Dreadnought battleship H.M.S.â€Bulwark†was destroyed by an internal explosion while at anchor at Sheerness, killing all but 12 of
Died 26 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Paget George Irvine. Unit: 6th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Death: 26 November 1915 Western Front. Son of the late Surgeon-Maj. George Nicol Irvine, A.M.D. and Mrs. Mary Irvine.
Died 26 November 1915
Imperial War Museum
Trooper Thomas Robert Evans 352. Unit: A Squadron, 5th Light Horse Regiment, 2nd Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 26 November 1915 Gallipoli Dardanelles.
Died 26 November 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain John Anthony Harris MC. Unit: 12th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 26 November 1917, missing in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial.
Died 26 November 1917
Imperial War Museum
Major Frederick Henry Johnson VC. Unit: 73rd Field Company, Royal Engineers. Death: 26 November 1917, Western Front. Commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial.
Died 26 November 1917
Imperial War Museum
Miss Elsie Maud Inglis, Scottish Women's Hospitals. Died on her return from Russia 26 November 1917.
Died 26 November 1917
Imperial War Museum