The Office of Australian War Graves (OAWG) is a branch within the Australian Government Department of Veterans' Affairs. The branch was initially a stand-alone agency, formed 1 January 1975. In 1980, the War Graves Act 1980 (Cth) formalised the position of Director War Graves within the Department of Veterans' Affairs.[1] The OAWG acts as Australian agent for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.[1]
The responsibilities of the OAWG generally fall within the following five areas.[2]
- Processing of new official commemorations
- Maintenance of war cemeteries, plots, individual graves, post-war commemorations and battle exploit memorials
- Management of major projects at overseas locations
- Provision of research services for commemorative information, and
- Issuing permission to use the relevant Service badge.
The OAWG is also responsible for the maintenance of some 20,000 graves of Commonwealth war dead in 76 war cemeteries & plots and in numerous civil cemeteries, as well as Memorials to the Missing listing over 3,000 names throughout Australia, Norfolk Island, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
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References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "About Office of Australian War Graves". Australian Government Department of Veterans' Affairs. Archived from the original on 14 June 2009. http://web.archive.org/web/20090614001940/http://www.dva.gov.au/oawg/about_OAWG/.
- ↑ "Error: no
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