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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]
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.
Name | Period | Ref. |
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K. F. Macdonald | 1978 – 3 May 1981 | |
Hon. Lance Barnard AO | 22 June 1981 – 9 April 1984 | [3] |
Peter Young | 9 April 1984 – 1 October 1985 | [4] |
Alf Clarke AM | 1 October 1985 – 19 June 1991 | [5] |
Air Vice Marshal Alan Heggen AO | 19 June 1991 – 3 October 1997 | |
Air Vice Marshal Gary Beck AO | 3 October 1997 – August 2005 | |
Major General Paul Stevens AO | 2005–2010 | |
Brigadier Chris Appleton CSC | December 2010 – November 2015 | |
Ken Corke | December 2015 – 10 January 2019 | |
Brigadier Paul Nothard AM CSC CSM | 11 January 2019 – present | [6] |
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