Annual Report Home Page

Compliance index

President/Secretary’s Review

The Veterans’ Affairs Portfolio

Annual Report of the Repatriation Commission

Annual Report of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs

Annual Report of the National Treatment Monitoring Committee

Appendices

Index

Annual Reports Contents >> The Veterans’ Affairs Portfolio >> Office of Australian War Graves (OAWG)

Office of Australian War Graves (OAWG)

OAWG has three distinct roles: to maintain war cemeteries and individual war graves within Australia and the region, as agents of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission; to officially commemorate eligible veterans who have died post-war and whose deaths are accepted as being caused by war service; and to provide and maintain national memorials overseas. The Director is a statutory office holder responsible to the Secretary of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs.