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!
Överstelöjnant Gustaf Adolf Boltenstern på Neptun 1914. Silvermedaljör i dressyr vid Stockholmsolympiaden 1912. Guldmedaljören Carl Bonde i bakgrunden.
31 December 1914
Karlsborgs fästningsmuseum
Lance Corporal Thomas George Austin 11001, South Wales Borderers
Died 31 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Archibald Trotter. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Coldstream Guards. Death: 31 December 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 31 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Edwin Allen James Edwards , Bedfordshire Regiment
Died 31 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Edwin Allen James Edwards. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Death: 31 December 1914 wounded at Givenchy, died from wounds at Fishmonger's Hall Hospital, London. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Edwards, of Surbi
Died 31 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Kenneth Clarke Thomson , Royal Scots Fusiliers
Died 31 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Major Ernest Kerr Molesworth. Unit: Royal Engineers, attached 2nd Battalion, Queen Victorias Own Madras Sappers and Miners. Death: 31 December 1914 At St.Hilaire Western Front
Died 31 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Private Albert Victor Colston 11476, South Wales Borderers
Died 31 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Private William Henry Lawrence 10868, South Wales Borderers
Died 31 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Anson Lloyd Silvester. Unit: Special Reserve, attached 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment.. Death: 31 December 1914 Killed at Guinchy near La Bassee Western Front
Died 31 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Guy Wiley Hughes , Middlesex Regiment
Died 31 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Guy Wiley Hughes. Unit: 4th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 31 December 1914, killed while searching for a missing soldier outside his trench at Bailleul, Western Front.
Died 31 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant John Edward Paton , Monmouthshire Regiment
Died 31 December 1914
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant John Edward Paton MID. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment. Death: 31 December 1914 Western Front
Died 31 December 1914
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Richard Douglas Pryce Jenkin , South Wales Borderers
Died 31 December 1914
Lives of the First World War