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!
Major John O’Hara Moore. Unit: 55th Field Company, Royal Engineers. Death: 28 December 1914 Western Front
Died 28 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Miss Ethel Mary Tate, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of pneumonia contracted on duty 28 December 1915.
Died 28 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Miss Ethel Mary Tate, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of pneumonia contracted on duty 28 December 1915.
Died 28 December 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Robert Thomas Windsor 4289. Unit: D Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 28 December 1916 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 28 December 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
28 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
28 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lily Maud Leaver, Munitions work. Died of TNT poisoning 28 December 1917.
Died 28 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lily Maud Leaver, Munitions work. Died of TNT poisoning 28 December 1917.
Died 28 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private John Brown 394. Unit: 7th Company, Australian Machine Gun Corps. Death: 28 December 1917 Trois Arbres Western Front
Died 28 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Julia Helen Herbert, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died in France 28 December 1918.
Died 28 December 1918
Imperial War Museum
Julia Helen Herbert, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died in France 28 December 1918.
Died 28 December 1918
Imperial War Museum
Major William Fallis Seaton MC. Unit: 31st Battalion, Alberta Regiment, Canadian Expeditionary Force. Death: 28 December 1918 Buried at Bramshott (St.Mary) Churchyard, Hampshire- presumably died in the nearby 12th Canadian General Hospital.
Died 28 December 1918
Imperial War Museum