We will send you a letter to formally acknowledge your donation. You can choose to donate for a specific purpose, such as maintaining our Gardens of Remembrance. We gratefully accept any donations to support the work of the Office of Australian War Graves. You can stay up to date by following us on: If you are unable to read or download content from these pages, please contact us or call us on 1800 VETERAN ( 1800 838 372). Hellfire Pass Interpretive Centre and Memorial Walking Trail.Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France.Guide to Australian Memorials on the Western Front in France and Belgium.Office of Australian War Graves Information Brochure.Take a look at a selection of our publications. We produce a range of publications and resources. provide details about those who have served in war or conflict through our nominal rolls.send families a photo if they can’t visit the site.help families find the grave or commemoration of a veteran.give you permission to use a veteran’s service emblem on their grave on behalf of Defence.arrange a grave marker, plaque or memorial for a veteran.Grave markers, plaques and memorials are maintained for all time. Veteran’s who died as a result of their war service are commemorated equally and individually by name on one of the following: We build and maintain official memorials overseas on behalf of the Australian Government. some 220,000 commemorated in OAWG Gardens of Remembrance.just over 1,000 named on Memorials to the Missing.over 13,000 war dead buried in war and civil cemeteries.There are over 69,000 Australian war dead in identified graves around the world and another 33,000 are commemorated on Memorials to the Missing. Find out about official commemorations.Īs an agent of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), we maintain war cemeteries, individual war graves and memorials for members of the Commonwealth forces who died during the First and Second World Wars. We also commemorate eligible veterans who survived war service, but who later died from service-related injuries or conditions.

The Office of Australian War Graves (OAWG) recognises the service of members of the ADF who die in war.

Civil war navy medical insignia