reference

Publications

Annual Report
Other publications
Videos
Inquiries

Annual Report

Information concerning performance outcomes, and financial expenditure, relating to activities undertaken by the Office of Australian War Graves during the 2001–02 Financial Year can be found in the Office’s component of the 2001–02 Annual Report of the Repatriation Commission and the Department of Veterans’ Affairs.

Other publications

The Office of Australian War Graves makes the following publications available free of charge through its State and regional depots:

The Journal of the Office of Australian War Graves, published annually.

War Cemeteries and Memorials in the Papua New Guinea and Indonesia Region reprinted 1997.

War Cemeteries within Australia reprinted 1997.
These brochures illustrate war cemeteries and memorials that are located within Australia and in the Papua New Guinea/Indonesia regions.

Adelaide River War Cemetery
Contains information about the Adelaide River War Cemetery

Services provided by Office of Australian War Graves
Illustrates the types of memorials that can be provided for those who are eligible for official commemoration. It also details how to apply for permission to use the service badge for those not eligible for official commemoration and of information services regarding those who die in wartime.

A Guide to Australian Memorials on the Western Front, in France and Belgium: April 1916–November 1918
Illustrates memorials and cemeteries in France and Belgium that are of significant interest to Australia.

The Office of Australian War Graves has available for purchase at $20 the following Australian World War I Battlefield Driving Tour Kit.

Villers-Bretonneux to Le Hamel, March–July 1918
This package contains a guidebook, CD, four postcards
and a military map.

North Beach Gallipoli 1915
This booklet has been produced to assist visitors to the Anzac Commemorative Site to understand more fully the significance of the area. It is available for purchase at $15.

Papua New Guinea 60th Anniversary Booklets
Two booklets detailing the information panels concerning the campaigns at Isurava, Milne Bay and Popondetta. Available for purchase at $12 a set.

The National Office makes the following Commonwealth War Graves Commission items available by purchase at $9 per copy.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery and Memorial registers.

Maps of Commonwealth War Cemeteries and Memorials, scale 1: 200,000 or 1cm: 2km: at $6 per copy

No 51: France and Belgium
No 52: Le Havre–Amiens
No 53: Arras–Charleville–Mezieres–St Quentin

The following brochures are available from the Office of Australian War Graves

Hellfire Pass Memorial
A brief historical reference guide for those visiting the site of the Burma–Thailand Railway and information on how to get to Hellfire Pass from Kanchanaburi.

Gallipoli
The Anzac Commemorative Site at Gallipoli. Displays the information panels at the rear of the site.

Sandakan Memorial Park
A guide to the memorial park at Sandakan, opened in 1999. The brochure illustrates where the memorial park is in relation to the former prisoner-of-war camp where some relics have been preserved. Includes a short history and how to get to Sandakan.

Guides to the Gardens of Remembrance in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania and Northern Territory, Australia

Details features in the Gardens of Remembrance and of the war cemeteries that are usually in close proximity to them.

Videos

The video Their Job Nobly Done, which explains the services available through the Office of Australian War Graves, has been issued to ex-Service organisations and State offices of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s video A Debt of Honour illustrates how the War Cemeteries and Memorials came to be established in 147 countries throughout the world and how, through its work, the Commission records and honours all those who died. Copies have been forwarded to all Returned and Services League state branches.

Inquiries

Inquiries should be directed to:

The Administrative Officer
Office of Australian War Graves
Post Office Box 21
Woden ACT 2606
Phone: (02) 6289 6527
Fax: (02) 6289 4861