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 Edmund James Widdrington Byrne. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, South Wales Borderers, 87th Brigade, 29th Division. Death: 29 April 1916 Missing Western Front
Died 29 April 1916
Imperial War Museum
Captain Roy Evans Bullen. Unit: 2nd Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. Death: 29 April 1916 Western Front
Died 29 April 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant William Miller Major Gilliland. Unit: 2nd Battalion, attached to the 1st Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Death: 29 April 1916, Krithia, Gallipoli, Dardanelles.
Died 29 April 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Frederick Charles Banting 3736, South Staffordshire Regiment
Died 29 April 1916
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Basil Henry Worsley-Worswick , 2nd King Edward's Horse
Died 29 April 1916
Lives of the First World War