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!
Costumes of the British Army In Flanders : Officer and men leaving the trenches on relief
1 January 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Henry S Carter. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers. Death: Not known POW 1916 to 1918 Western Front
Died 2 January 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colonel Michael Hudson Courtenay MID. Unit: Commander, 1st Heavy Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 04 January 1916 Killed in action at Kut Kut , Mesopatamia
Died 4 January 1916
Imperial War Museum
Major Herbert William Dumaresq. Unit: Rifle Brigade. Death: 04 January 1916 died in London after his health broke down Home Front.
Died 4 January 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colin Andrew Proudfoot. Unit: 53rd Sikhs, (The Frontier Force), Indian Army. Death: 06 January 1916 Mesopotamia
Died 6 January 1916
Imperial War Museum
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
Bombardier Donald McLean 2850. Unit: 11th Brigade, Australian Field Artillery, late 15th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 09 January 1916
Died 9 January 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
10 January 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
10 January 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
10 January 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
10 January 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
10 January 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
10 January 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
10 January 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
10 January 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
10 January 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
10 January 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
10 January 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lance Corporal J Duncan Druce PS/1321. Unit: 16th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment (Public Schools Battalion). Death: 10 January 1916 Western Front
Died 10 January 1916
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Charles Valentine Geary Field. Unit: 4th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (Central Ontario Regiment), attached to No. 16 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 12 January 1916, Lille, Western Front.
Died 12 January 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Samuel Lawrence Glover. Unit: 10th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment). Death: 13 January 1916, Western Front.
Died 13 January 1916
Imperial War Museum
Alice Post, Munitions work. Died of TNT poisoning 16 January 1916.
Died 16 January 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
17 January 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
19 January 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
19 January 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Walter Arthur Brooking. Unit: Royal House Artillery, attached to 15th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 19 January 1916 Tourcoing Western Front. Son of Brig-Gen. and Mrs. H.T. Brooking, C.B,. of India.
Died 19 January 1916
Imperial War Museum
Private Leslie Raymond Talbot Gilbert 1560. Unit: 14th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 20 January 1916, died of wounds, Western Front.
Died 20 January 1916
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Alexander Maurice Gordon. Unit: 1st Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 21 January 1916, missing, Ypres, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 21 January 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
23 January 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
23 January 1916
Imperial War Museum
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
23 January 1916
Imperial War Museum