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!
Lieutenant George Eric Guy Stacpoole. Unit: 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment.. Death: 27 January 1915 Killed in action in the trenches at St Eloi, Belgium. Western Front
Died 27 January 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Francis Charles Coles 3/11345, South Wales Borderers (Special Reserve)
Died 27 January 1915
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Ben Gerald Noel Watkin. Unit: 40th Battery, Special Reserve, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 27 January 1915 Wounded by shrapnel on 25 January 1915 at La Bassee, died in hospital at Bethune Western Front
Died 27 January 1915
Imperial War Museum