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Article: AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT: Australian war graves listed on Internet.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-10 March 1999-AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT: Australian war graves listed on Internet (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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Australians will be able to obtain the details of graves of 1.7 million members of the British Commonwealth forces who have died during the two world wars through a new Debt of Honour Register on the Internet.

The Debt of Honour Register has been established by Commonwealth War Graves Commission which is based in Britain.

"A very important part of Australia's history was written on the battlefields of many conflicts this century - 101,285 Australians were killed in the two world wars alone," the ...

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