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Hi All,
In view of the cost of a photograph from the private websites such as the Maple Leaf Legacy and the BWMP i have decided to start a new Project, the aims of the project are set out below.
I am already working with The Veterans Affairs Canada team and have been working with them for the last year or so. I'm hoping to also be working with a New Zealand and South African goverments who i have been in contact with for the last few weeks.
The Project is called The Commonwealth Roll Of Honour Project and here are the aims.
The aim of this project is to work in conjunction with the governments or similar bodies in each Commonwealth Country to develop or contribute to a source of FREE online information of their war casualties.
Our hope is to include all the information we can, including attestation papers, service records, medal records, war diaries, photographs of headstones and memorials and any other information available.
If you are interested in helping with such a project or you are looking for a relative and would like our help please join our group and become a part of the Commonwealth Roll of Honour Project.
COMMONWEALTH ROLL OF HONOUR PROJECTS
Please email me or PM me should you wish to help or if you have any questions. I hope that you will be able to join the Project and look forward to working with anyone who wishes to help.
A proper website will hopefully be up and running within the next couple of months.
Best wishes
Mike (Sniper)
If anyone has a request for a photo of a wargrave you can contact me on wargraverequests@btinternet.com
Last edited by sniper; 27-02-2011 at 10:56 AM.
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Lest we forget
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You should get in contact with Spidge, he has a lot of Roll of honour stuff regarding the RAAF in WW2
Hi Mike,
A very worthwhile project .
Are you speaking with anyone in Australia about this?
Good luck with your trip to Canada.
Spidge,
My project is the collection of over 11,200 Headstone/Memorial photos of RAAF/RAF Aussies located in 67 countries during WW2 and 360+ from WW1. Can you assist?
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My Avatar is the colour patch (Blood & Bandages) of my Fathers Battalion in the 6th Division AIF.
Gunner Frederick Edwin Swallow, "C" Company 2/8th Battalion, 19th Brigade.
Critically injured in the taking of Tobruk on 21st January 1941.
What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site:
http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm
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Hi Morse,Originally Posted by morse1001
Spidge and i have been working together for a few months now providing each other with photos. Hoping that Spidge will hold the RAAF database where people will be able to get free photos and information.
Cheers
Mike
For those that served, fought and died. We will remember them.
Lest we forget
Outwitted by a Satnav. Twice
Paras don't die, we re-group in hell
:“’Utrinque Paratus’ (‘Ready for Anything’).loco:
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Hi Spidge,
I've been talking to the Australian goverment about it and have recieved a reply but awaiting another from their photographic department.
Mike
For those that served, fought and died. We will remember them.
Lest we forget
Outwitted by a Satnav. Twice
Paras don't die, we re-group in hell
:“’Utrinque Paratus’ (‘Ready for Anything’).loco:
They do have an enormous amount of information which is spread over a large amount of quality sites.
I am chasing something up for you however it is early days. Sadly I can't be more help being isolated in this tiny island.
Spidge,
My project is the collection of over 11,200 Headstone/Memorial photos of RAAF/RAF Aussies located in 67 countries during WW2 and 360+ from WW1. Can you assist?
-------------------------------------------------------
My Avatar is the colour patch (Blood & Bandages) of my Fathers Battalion in the 6th Division AIF.
Gunner Frederick Edwin Swallow, "C" Company 2/8th Battalion, 19th Brigade.
Critically injured in the taking of Tobruk on 21st January 1941.
What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site:
http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm
Άρης
Good luck with the project Sniper. Keep us informed.
And I think this thread deserves to be stickied for easy reference
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Thankyou for that Kyt, really appreciate it. To bring you up to date i have a number of cemeteries completed here in the UK and in France. I have a volunteer in Uganda who works for the British Embassy out there.
I have been talking to as i said the Australian Goverment and also to the Auckland War Museum. Not yet had a reply from the South Africans and i'm in talks with the Royal British Legion about them hosting the British War Casualties. Hoping to have more talks with them in the very near future.
If anyone has any requests i'll do my best to fulfill them if i can.
Many thanks again
Mike
For those that served, fought and died. We will remember them.
Lest we forget
Outwitted by a Satnav. Twice
Paras don't die, we re-group in hell
:“’Utrinque Paratus’ (‘Ready for Anything’).loco:
Hi Mike
Can't believe I haven't said good luck on this thread so...good luck with this project (probably said it elsewhere but to be sure...).
Came back to this thread because I was just going through some pics a friend sent through from Tripoli War Cememtery, Libya. I'm not sure I sent everything I had through to Spidge. However, in going back through the pics, I came across an RNZAF headstone and several RAF ones. I will email them to you but also post them here for use by members or people researching. Won't be many, maybe three or four.
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Sounds a real worthwhile project. Here's to its future and hopefully complete success. Good luck !!!!!
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