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 Horace Falkland Herd. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to the 2nd Battalion, Welsh Regiment. Death: 27 December 1914, killed in action at Festubert, Western Front.
Died 27 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Ralph Noel Phillips. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Death: 27 December 1914 Western Front
Died 27 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Private William John Mason. Unit: Coldstream Guards. Death: 27 December 1914 Western Front
Died 27 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Robert Hamilton Williamson. Unit: 118th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 27 December 1914 Western Front
Died 27 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Thomas Wright Carson. Unit: 1/6th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment). Death: 27 December 1915 Missing in action near Ypres Western Front
Died 27 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Harold McGregor S/40236. Unit: 1st Battalion, Cameron Highlanders. Death: 27 December 1916 Western Front
Died 27 December 1916
Imperial War Museum
THE ROYAL ENGINEERS SIGNALS SERVICE ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
27 December 1917
Imperial War Museum