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!
AIRCRAFT AND BALLOONS USED BY SOME OF THE AIR PIONEERS WHO WERE CONTEMPORARY WITH SAMUEL FRANKLIN CODY.
29 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Craik Irving , Canadian Engineers
Died 29 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
M E Montgomery, Joint War Committee. Died through illness contracted while on service in France 29 October 1917.
Died 29 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
M E Montgomery, Joint War Committee. Died through illness contracted while on service in France 29 October 1917.
Died 29 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private Arthur Stewart Butcher 11032, Wiltshire Regiment
Died 29 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Benjamin Brown 10890, British West Indies Regiment
Died 29 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private Bruce Ballantyne 10880, British West Indies Regiment
Died 29 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private George Albert Hunt 764069, 28 London Regiment (Artists' Rifles)
Died 29 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Private George Albert Hunt 764069. Unit: 28th Battalion, London Regiment (Artists Rifles). Death: 29 October 1917 Killed in action at Passchendaele Western Front
Died 29 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Private James Ivor Holroyd B/201493. Unit: Rifle Brigade, attached to the 5th Platoon, "B" Company, 1st/28th Battalion, London Regiment (Artists' Rifles). Death: 29 October 1917 to 31 October 1917, missing in action, Western Front.
Died 29 October 1917
Imperial War Museum
Serjeant Herbert Granville Creasy 5266, Honourable Artillery Company
Died 29 October 1917
Lives of the First World War
Shells Bursting at Dawn on the Trenches round Ali-el-Muntar, on the Outskirts of Gaza
29 October 1917
Imperial War Museum