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 E F B Wyatt MID. Unit: 2nd Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment. Death: 08 January 1916 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 8 January 1916
Imperial War Museum
Corporal Herbert Hartley M2/113737, Army Service Corps
Died 8 January 1916
Lives of the First World War
Farrier Quarter Master Serjeant John Henry Humphreys 903, Montgomeryshire Yeomanry
Died 8 January 1916
Lives of the First World War
Flight Sub-Lieutenant Sidney Arthur Black , Royal Naval Air Service
Died 8 January 1916
Lives of the First World War
Lance Corporal Benjamin Albert Van Gronigen 1534, British West Indies Regiment
Died 8 January 1916
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Ralph Frontinac Banbury , East Yorkshire Regiment
Died 8 January 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Caleb Peter Channing 23740, Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 8 January 1916
Lives of the First World War
Private Robert Turnbull 17747, Northumberland Fusiliers
Died 8 January 1916
Lives of the First World War