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 Arthur Moore O’Sullivan MID. Unit: 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. Death: 31 May 1915 Killed in Action Fromelles Western Front
Died 31 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Corporal John Rowland Jennings 10303, South Wales Borderers
Died 31 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Cecil Herbert Hanigan 1157. Unit: 15th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 31 May 1915, killed in action, Gallipoli, Dardanelles. Commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial.
Died 31 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Huntly Hooper. Unit: Royal Horse Artillery, attached to the British Expeditionary Force as Deputy Assistant Adjutant General. Death: 31 May 1915, died in the Royal Free Hospital, London from illness contracted on active service i
Died 31 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant William Fielding Sames. Unit: 4th Battalion (Territorial), East Lancashire Regiment. Death: 31 May 1915 Wounded 23 May 1915 Gallipoli Peninsula, died at sea. Gallipoli/Dardanelles
Died 31 May 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Arthur Bellgrove 3091, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 31 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Frank Lionel Favier 2175, 9th Manchester Regiment
Died 31 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Seth Thomas Heselden G/1103, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 31 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Thomas Clarkson Pilgrim 10599, West Riding Regiment
Died 31 May 1915
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Basil Hutton Richardson. Unit: 2nd/8th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry. Death: 31 May 1915 Wounded on 25 April 1915 taken prisoner and died of wounds at Paderborn Western Front
Died 31 May 1915
Imperial War Museum