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21 Apr 2020
Consolidation of DVA Nominal Roll Websites
Dear ESORT MembersYou may recall that at our last meeting on 27 February 2020, Deputy Secretary Charles McHardie announced the consolidation of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) nominal roll websites into a new, single access portal at http://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/.The new nominal rolls website was implemented on 5 March 2020. It continues to provide information on the service history of members of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) who served during World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam War, consolidated in a single location. The new website has an improved look and feel and a much improved search functionality that we know you will appreciate.We are writing to agencies and organisations who support veterans and their families to let you know about the new website and to support you in case you get any queries from users. To help make the transition to the new website seamless and easy for veterans and their families to use, users accessing previous websites are being automatically redirected to the new site. While we have not experienced any issues to date, there may be isolated instances where redirection does not occur as expected.In the event you are contacted to assist with technical difficulties, we would appreciate you suggesting to the user they update any saved links to the previous nominal rolls websites to the new address. Users may have these stored as ‘bookmarks’ or as ‘favourites’ in their web browser. If additional assistance is required, please do not hesitate to refer veterans and their families to the DVA Nominal Rolls Team usingnominal.rolls@dva.gov.au, telephone 1300 780 133, or the Director Nominal Rolls – GPO Box 9998, Brisbane, QLD, 4001.Thank you for your ongoing commitment to acknowledging and commemorating the service and sacrifice of Australia’s veteran community.
Regards
Liz
Liz Cosson AM CSC
Secretary
Department of Veterans’ Affairs
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23 Mar 2020
Autumn Edition of Wings Magazine Available Now
Autumn Edition of Wings Magazine Available Now
Copies of the Autumn edition of Wings magazine are in the post this week. This edition includes the enthralling and final instalment of Sir Ross Smith’s own story of his epic flight 100 years ago, two articles on drone employment in Australia and some fascinating new technology in the aviation industry. The base feature this quarter is Edinburgh, and the museum is the SA Aviation Museum. The AFA section is on pages 73-75.
E-copies of this edition are now available on-line via the “Wings” link on the home page of www.raafapublications.org.au.
Alternatively, it can be accessed directly here. This takes readers to a digital ‘articles view’ that is excellent for mobile devices. A flipbook version that is also well suited to desktops is easily accessed by clicking on the magazine cover at the top of the page, or from any article via the menu icon on the top right of the page.