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!
Bombardier Gilbert Mark James Gardner D/2421. Unit: 1st Division Ammunition Column, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 27 November 1914, aboard troopship SS Shropshire at sea, near North Africa.
Died 27 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Gordon Stewart Browne MID. Unit: Adjutant, 1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. Death: 27 November 1914 From wounds received 17 Nov, Ypres Western Front. Son of Henry J. Browne, of Grosvenor House, Faversham, Kent.
Died 27 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Gordon Stewart Browne MID. Unit: Adjutant, 1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. Death: 27 November 1914 From wounds received 17 Nov, Ypres Western Front. Son of Henry J. Browne, of Grosvenor House, Faversham, Kent.
Died 27 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Arthur Woodland Toms , Devonshire Regiment
Died 27 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Arthur Woodland Toms. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, attached to 2nd Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Death: 27 November 1914 Accidentally killed Western Front
Died 27 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Major Launcelot St Vincent Rose. Unit: 55th Field Company, Royal Engineers. Death: 27 November 1914 Western Front
Died 27 November 1914
Imperial War Museum
Private Frederick Thorley Finucane 1845, Manchester Regiment
Died 27 November 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant John Sturgess Eldred , Leinster Regiment
Died 27 November 1914
Lives of the First World War