Marking (First World War) Private Graves Grants Program
Tender ID: 593642
Tender Details
Tender Description
The Australian Government is inviting applications via a demand driven process for grant funding under the Marking (First World War) Private Graves Grants (MPG) Program in 2025–2026.
An estimated 331,800 Australian personnel were deployed during the First World War. Approximately 60,000 were killed or are listed as missing in action, leaving some 271,800 service men and women who returned to Australia.
When they passed away, some were buried without a funeral or headstone.
More than 30,000 of these veterans have since had their deaths accepted as related to their war service and have been officially commemorated as post-war dead.
The objective of the MPG Program is to contribute to community recognition of the service and sacrifice of service personnel in the First World War who are not eligible for official commemoration by Government. It does this by providing funding to contribute to the cost of establishing a grave marker on currently unmarked private graves.
The intended outcome of the MPG Program is to contribute to the work being undertaken by the community to mark private graves of veterans of the First World War so as to enable community recognition of service and to preserve and add to the knowledge of, or provide information about, Australia’s wartime heritage.
Location
New South Wales : Central West : Far North Coast : Far West : Hunter : Illawarra : Mid North Coast : Murray : New England : Orana : Riverina : Southern Highlands : Sydney
Queensland : Cairns & Far North Queensland : Gladstone : Mackay Whitsunday Region : Mount Isa & North West Region : Rockhampton : South East Queensland : South West & Darling Downs : The Central West : Townsville : Wide Bay Burnett
Victoria : Barwon South West : Gippsland : Grampians : Hume : Loddon Mallee : Melbourne
South Australia : Adelaide : Eyre & Western : Far North : Fleurieu & Kangaroo Island : Limestone Coast : Murray & Mallee : York & Mid North
Northern Territory : Barkly : Big Rivers : Central Australia : East Arnhem : Greater Darwin : Top End
Australian Capital Territory
Tasmania