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!
An ML Recovering a Torpedo : "HMS Yarmouth" at practice, January 1918
1 January 1918
Imperial War Museum
Bombardier John Andrewartha Armstrong 19615. Unit: 29th Battery, 8th Brigade, Australian Field Artillery. Death: 01 January 1918
Died 1 January 1918
Imperial War Museum
Captain Overbury served throughout 1917 as a Staff Officer 3 Class attached to the Royal Flying Corps. He subsequently served as a General Staff Officer 3 Grade at the War Office between 2 January 1918 and February 1919.
Died 2 January 1918
Imperial War Museum
Gladys Hayden, Munitions work. Died of burns contracted on duty 02 January 1918.
Died 2 January 1918
Imperial War Museum
Gladys Hayden, Munitions work. Died of burns contracted on duty 02 January 1918.
Died 2 January 1918
Imperial War Museum