The War Graves Photographic Project

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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 World War I to the present day. These memorials are all over the world where British, Commonwealth and other nations servicemen and women are buried or commemorated.

Working as a joint venture with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and linked to The Office of Australian War Graves, enables families, scholars and researchers to obtain, via the CWGC[1] or TWGPP[2] websites, a copies of the photograph of a grave or memorial entry, which for many older people it is impossible to visit due to the location and ability to travel. This service has only been made possible through the efforts of a dedicated group of volunteers, from all walks of life, who feel the need to Remember those that made the ultimate sacrifice and who realise the importance for families to see where their loved ones are laid to rest or commemorated. This emulates the CWGC ethos to ‘Remember in Perpetuity’.

The project has a website with a searchable database. Copies of archived photographs (currently around 1,412,802 as of 29 November 2009) 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.

See Also

• Churchyard
• Cemetery
• Gravestone
• Graveyard
• Headstone

External links

• The War Graves Photographic Project
• War Graves & Battlefields Heritage - All-Party Parliamentary Group
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The Office of Australian War Graves

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