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 Cameron Lamb DSO. Unit: 2nd Battalion Border Regiment. Death: 29 December 1914 Western Front
Died 29 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Captain Leonel Graham Pringle MVO. Unit: 1st Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Death: 29 December 1914 Western Front
Died 29 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colonel Reginald Alexander. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Death: 29 December 1914 Western Front
Died 29 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Archibald Manaton Farrier. Unit: 1st Battalion, South Wales Borderers. Death: 29 December 1914, Western Front.
Died 29 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Private Frank Bressay Robertson 1616. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 29 December 1916 Western Front
Died 29 December 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private James Gordon Wells 4548. Unit: 21st Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 29 December 1916 Killed in Action while acting as a Stretcher Bearer. Western Front
Died 29 December 1916
Imperial War Museum
Captain William Reginald Karslake. Unit: Pembroke Yeomanry. Death: 29 December 1917, buried at Paignton.
Died 29 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Miss Gertrude Snelling, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of septicaemia contracted on duty 29 December 1917.
Died 29 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
Miss Gertrude Snelling, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of septicaemia contracted on duty 29 December 1917.
Died 29 December 1917
Imperial War Museum
GERMANY AT THE END OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR, INCLUDING SCENES OF THE GERMAN REVOLUTION, 1918-1919
29 December 1918
Imperial War Museum