The War Graves Photographic Project

However, due to its popularity the project has now extended the remit to cover all nationalities and military conflicts and make these available within a searchable database.

Until June 2016 the project was working as a joint venture with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and assisting The Office of Australian War Graves, and the Veterans Affairs Canada and the New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage this enables families, scholars and researchers to obtain, via the TWGPP website, copies of the photograph of a grave or memorial entry, which for many older people it is impossible to visit due to the location and ability to travel.

The Projects volunteers have proactively taken photographs of over 1.5 million graves and memorial inscriptions in the Commissions care and continue to provide thousands of these photographs to members of the public each year, many of them next of kin unable to travel to visit the grave or memorial in person.

Submissions of images from anywhere in the world where military personnel were based or conflicts like the Anglo-South African War are now being welcomed.

2016 included the big centennial anniversaries like the numerous individual battles that made up 'The Somme'.