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 WWI to the present day.

Now working as a joint venture with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and linked to The Office of Australian War Graves, this will enable families, scholars and researchers to obtain, via the CWGC[1] or TWGPP[2] websites, a copy of the photograph of a grave or memorial entry which for many is impossible to visit due to the location. 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 aims to photograph in excess of 1.75 million graves or memorials by volunteers who are encouraged to participate in the photography of memorials and graves in cemeteries all over the world where British, Commonwealth and other nations servicemen and women are buried or commemorated.

Regular visits are organised where weekend volunteers, as a group, visit a war cemetery in Europe, or further afield, to carry out a photographic and cataloguing exercise.

The project has a website with a searchable database. Copies of archived photographs (currently around 950000 as of Sept 2008) can be obtained directly on request to project.

The Project has also been recognised by way of the British Parliamentary Early Day Motion [3] calling on the support of Members of Parliament and is linked to the Parliamentary Website [4].

Regular visits are organised where at weekends volunteers, as a group, visit a war cemetery in Europe 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 (35000) on this Turkish peninsula.

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