Ex-service personnel or their next of kin can contact Air Force Records directly to obtain a copy free of charge. Alternatively access to a dossier can be obtained by anyone through the National Archives for a fee. The Office of Australian War Graves maintains war cemeteries, the graves of individual war dead in civil cemeteries, and memorials to the missing in Australia and nearby regions. On behalf of the Department of Defence, the Office issues permission to use the relevant service badge for use on graves. Australian War Graves holds records on all war and eligible post-war dead.
Brochures are available free of charge and are recommended for travellers to the battlefields.
Other publications include cemetery registers for the First and Second World Wars and overprinted Michelin maps of war cemeteries in France and Belgium. The Debt of Honour Register, which can be searched on the CWGC's website, provides information on Commonwealth soldiers in the First and Second World Wars who died on active service. The place of death, and details of the soldier's gravesite or memorial panel, are provided. There are also directions on how to get to cemeteries and memorials, along with information about wartime events there. Other countries Enquiries concerning a veteran of another country's armed forces should be directed to the embassy or consulate of that country.