The aim of The War Graves Photographic Project is to photograph every war grave, individual memorial, MoD grave, and family memorial of serving military personnel from WWI to the present day and make these available within a searchable database.
Now working as a joint venture with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, this will enable families, scholars and researchers to obtain, via the CWGC or TWGPP websites, a copy of the photograph of a grave or memorial which for many is impossible to visit due to the location.
This service has only been made possible through the efforts of a dedicated group of volunteers, from all walks of life, who feel the need to Remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice and who realise the importance for families to see where their loved ones are laid to rest or commemorated. This emulates the CWGC ethos to 'Remember in Perpetuity'
This project aims to photograph in excess of 1.75 million graves or memorials from Commonwealth Nations and many from other military forces around the world.
Please use the search facility to check if a photograph is currently held and available but please remember that the CWGC records hold 1.75 million casualties so we have a little more work to do before the archive can be considered complete.
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5th -7th February 2010
David Milborrow has now returned from his travels in Egypt and Libya having completed both countries for TWGPP. Well done David
Newly erected stones in various cemeteries around Scotland by Iain Anderson
Additional family memorials in Lancashire by Rick Boden and SJ Clarke
Ross and Cromarty sites by Peter Moran
170 cemeteries from Canada in Ontario and Quebec (1064 names) from CWGC archives
388 Cemeteries in USA (2074 names) from CWGC archives
Stavanger (Eiganes) Churchyard in Norway by Ion Drew
Canadians in Yorkshire by Alec Briggs
All Foreign nationals now complete in Tidworth Military cemetery - Howard Wootton
steve@twgpp.org or derek@twgpp.org
Names in Archive: 1,457,669