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History and genealogy news from Maitland, N.S.W.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The Commission's records commemorate over 1.7 million service men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died during the two world wars.
As we have so many records, we are regularly asked why:
we provide only initials and not Christian names
we don't have any information about next of kin in our records
To help explain this further, our Archives Supervisor has written a short report on
How our records were compiled
following the First World War.
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