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 Archibald James Hepburn. Unit: 1st/8th (Ardwick) Battalion, Manchester Regiment. Death: 29 May 1915, killed in action, Gallipoli, Dardanelles.
Died 29 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Company Quarter Master Sergeant Hubert William Page 496. Unit: C Company, 1st/4th Battalion, Kings Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment). Death: 29 May 1915 Western Front
Died 29 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal Robert Norman Emery 561. Unit: B Company, 24th Battalion, 6th Infantry Brigade, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 29 May 1915 Lone Pine Gallipoli Dardanelles.
Died 29 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Robert Maule. Unit: 5th Battalion, (Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles), Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment). Death: 29 May 1915 Gallipoli
Died 29 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant William James De Vere Scott. Unit: 8th (Ardwick) Battalion, Manchester Regiment. Death: 29 May 1915 Killed in action at Achi Baba, Gallipoli Peninsula Gallipoli/Dardanelles
Died 29 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain John Christopher Craven Barnes. Unit: 8th Battalion, Border Regiment. Death: 29 May 1916
Died 29 May 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Percy Jones 921. Unit: C Company, 39th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 29 May 1917 Western Front.
Died 29 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
The Great Adventure : a machine minder of the Midlands, on his way to Holy Land, at prayer on the transport
29 May 1917
Imperial War Museum
Captain Harold Thomas Forster DSO MC 5670. Unit: 1st Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, attached to the 2nd Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. Death: 29 May 1918, Western Front.
Died 29 May 1918
Imperial War Museum
LEISURE AND ENTERTAINMENT IN THE BRITISH ARMY DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
29 May 1918
Imperial War Museum
LEISURE AND ENTERTAINMENT IN THE BRITISH ARMY DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
29 May 1918
Imperial War Museum
LEISURE AND ENTERTAINMENT IN THE BRITISH ARMY DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
29 May 1918
Imperial War Museum
LEISURE AND ENTERTAINMENT IN THE BRITISH ARMY DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
29 May 1918
Imperial War Museum
LEISURE AND ENTERTAINMENT IN THE BRITISH ARMY DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
29 May 1918
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colonel Lancelot Colin William Deane DSO MC MID. Unit: Commanding 6th Battalion, South Wales Borderers. Death: 29 May 1918 Western Front. Only son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Deane, of "Beauvoir," Kotagiri, Nilgiris, Southern India.
Died 29 May 1918
Imperial War Museum