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Internet sites

With the Internet becoming increasingly popular, there are many sites for those researching military history.

OAWG’s site is part of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs website: www.dva.gov.au

War Graves is found under the Commemoration area of the site. The topics covered in OAWG website are:

• general information on OAWG;
• post-war commemorations;
• OAWG and the CWGC; and
• Australian Battle Exploit Memorials.

There are links from the Department’s site to the Australian War Memorial and to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission database, the Debt of Honour database.

This database provides the burial location of 1.7 million members of the Commonwealth forces who died in World War I and World War II. Details of the 60,000 civilian casualties of World War II are also given: www.cwgc.org

The Canberra Genealogy Society is working on a database which also relates to the Boer War: www.hagsoc.org.au/sagraves/

The website of the Australian War Memorial is also a wonderful site for researchers. The Australian War Memorial holds battalion histories. The site has a wonderful photo gallery: www.awm.gov.au

Another site of interest is the Australian National Archives site. Archives holds all World War I and World War II records: www.naa.gov.au

Another useful site to those who may be planning a visit to the Somme region of France is: www.anzac.org

The following site is a photographic record of the new Anzac Commemorative Site in Gallipoli: www.anzacsite.gov.au

This site is useful to visitors who may be visiting war cemeteries on the Somme (Amiens Tourism Office, France): www.amiens.com/tourisme

This website — in French — is about Villers-Bretonneux, the site of the Australian National Memorial: www.villers-bretonneux.com

General information on touring the battlefields on Gallipoli: www.embaustralia.org.tr/anzac/anzac.htm

A useful site for travel advice on whether it is safe to visit a country or area of a country: www.dfat.gov.au/consular/advice/index.html

The nominal roll site for those Australians who served in World War II:
www.ww2roll.gov.au