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The War Graves Photographic Project aims to photograph every war grave, individual memorial, Ministry of Defence grave and family memorial of serving military personnel from WWI to the present day.

Working as a joint venture with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is a joint governmental organisation responsible for marking and maintaining the graves of members of the Commonwealth of Nations' military forces that died in the two world wars, to build memorials to those with no known grave, and to keep records of the war dead....
, and linked to The Office of Australian War Graves
Office of Australian War Graves

The Office of Australian War Graves is a branch within the Australian Department of Veterans' Affairs and was formed on January 1 1975. The OAWG acts as Australian agent for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission ....
, the project aims at volunteers photographing over 1.75 million graves or memorials all over the world where British, Commonwealth and other nations servicemen and women are buried or commemorated.

The project has a website with a searchable database.






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The War Graves Photographic Project aims to photograph every war grave, individual memorial, Ministry of Defence grave and family memorial of serving military personnel from WWI to the present day.

Working as a joint venture with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is a joint governmental organisation responsible for marking and maintaining the graves of members of the Commonwealth of Nations' military forces that died in the two world wars, to build memorials to those with no known grave, and to keep records of the war dead....
, and linked to The Office of Australian War Graves
Office of Australian War Graves

The Office of Australian War Graves is a branch within the Australian Department of Veterans' Affairs and was formed on January 1 1975. The OAWG acts as Australian agent for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission ....
, the project aims at volunteers photographing over 1.75 million graves or memorials all over the world where British, Commonwealth and other nations servicemen and women are buried or commemorated.

The project has a website with a searchable database. Copies of archived photographs (currently around 1,075,417 as of December 2008) can be obtained on request to project.

The Project has been mentioned by a British Parliamentary Early Day Motion and is linked to the parliamentary website.

Regular visits are organised where at weekends volunteers as a group visit a war cemetery to carryout a photographic and cataloging exercise. A group visit to the Netherlands in May 2008 achieved a further 18000 images and a trip to Gallipoli in September 2008 completed all those required (35,000) on the Turkish peninsula.

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