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 Edward Mason Grantham. Unit: 3rd Reserve Battalion, attached to the 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Death: 27 February 1915, Ypres, Western Front.
Died 27 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Oswald Griffith. Unit: 80th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, attached to the "B" Battery, 63rd Brigade, 12th (Eastern) Division. Death: 27 February 1915, Western Front.
Died 27 February 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Walter Alexander Cliff-McCulloch. Unit: 7th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. Death: 27 February 1916 Killed in action Western Front
Died 27 February 1916
Imperial War Museum
Duncan Gray McDougall 2057. Unit: D Coy, 31 Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 27 February 1917
Died 27 February 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Ronald Stuart P Main 424. Unit: A Company, 19th Battalion, 5th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 27 February 1917 Western Front
Died 27 February 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Arthur Hall 37316. Unit: 16th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 27 February 1917, missing in action, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 27 February 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Edward Tom Large 1321. Unit: West Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 27 February 1917 Western Front
Died 27 February 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Frederick Wray 5663. Unit: 2nd Platoon, A Company, 17th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 27 February 1917 Died of wounds on the Somme. Western Front
Died 27 February 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private George Charles Jude 1216. Unit: 38th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 27 February 1917 Western Front.
Died 27 February 1917
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
27 February 1918
Imperial War Museum