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!
Brevet Colonel Frederick Clifton Briggs , Border Regiment
Died 30 December 1916
Lives of the First World War
Captain George Kazimierz Arthur De Janasz. Unit: 3rd Section Ambulance Company, attached to Army Service Corps. Death: Not known. Entered the French theatre of war on 30 December 1916.
Died 30 December 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal George Shuck 5628, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Died 30 December 1916
Lives of the First World War
Munitions Worker Amelia Stewart , Ministry of Munitions
Died 30 December 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Alfred Edward Dover 25168, King's Shropshire Light Infantry
Died 30 December 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Francis Lionel Ifield 1684, British West Indies Regiment
Died 30 December 1916
Lives of the First World War