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!
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
Captain Edgar Newton Paul , King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 28 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Deck Hand Cecil John Boor 11628DA, Royal Naval Reserve - H.M. Drifter "Piscatorial II."
Died 28 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Deck Hand Donald McLeod 12250DA, Royal Naval Reserve - H.M. Drifter "Piscatorial II"
Died 28 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Deck Hand James Sherret 13521 DA, Royal Naval Reserve - H.M. Drifter "Piscatorial II"
Died 28 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Deck Hand Robert Crombie 11066DA, Royal Naval Reserve - H.M. Drifter "Piscatorial II"
Died 28 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Engineman Alexander Milne Catto 5231TS, Royal Naval Reserve - H.M. Drifter "Piscatorial II"
Died 28 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Engineman Samuel Benjamin Sargent 4474TS, Royal Naval Reserve - H.M. Drifter "Piscatorial II"
Died 28 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal James Henry Smith 25086, Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
Died 28 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Leading Deck Hand Alexander Lough 11071DA, Royal Naval Reserve - H.M. Drifter "Piscatorial II"
Died 28 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Charles Henry Barnard , Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve - H.M. Mersey Examination Vessel No.1
Died 28 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
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
Musician Albert James Dykes 10210, Royal Marine Light Infantry: Portsmouth Division
Died 28 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private David Griffith Thomas 5834, London Regiment
Died 28 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private George Henry Latham 10532, South Wales Borderers
Died 28 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
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
Private Thomas Gillan D/7637, 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)
Died 28 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Second Hand James Collin 11069DA, Royal Naval Reserve - H.M. Drifter "Piscatorial II"
Died 28 December 1917
Lives of the First World War
Skipper John Tungate , Royal Naval Reserve - H.M. Drifter "Piscatorial II"
Died 28 December 1917
Lives of the First World War