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!
Private William Thomas Woolhouse 505891, 5th King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 23 January 1988
Lives of the First World War
Driver Ronald Eric Bowker 700359, Royal Field Artillery
Died 21 February 1988
Lives of the First World War
Nurse Right Honorable Baroness Abinger , French Red Cross
Died 11 July 1988
Lives of the First World War
Private David Lynch 63700, West Yorkshire Regiment
Died 11 September 1988
Lives of the First World War
Captain Graham Hamilton Greenwell , Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Died 27 October 1988
Lives of the First World War