Upcoming 2017 Commemoration Services:(as advised by the office of The Hon Dan Tehan MP)
| 25 August |
75th Anniversary of the Battle of Milne Bay |
Australian War Memorial, Canberra |
| 14 September |
Anniversary Australian Peacekeepers and Peacemakers |
Anzac Parade, Canberra |
| 26 September |
Centenary of the Battle of Polygon Wood |
Passchendaele Zonnebeke, Belgium |
| 23 October |
75th Anniversary of the start of El Alamein |
Australian War Memorial, Canberra |
| 31 October |
Centenary of the Battle of Beersheba, Sinai Palestine Campaign |
Be'er Sheva, Israel |
| 2 November |
75th Anniversary of Kokoda and the beachheads |
Australian War Memorial, Canberra |
DVA Ex-POW Statistics as at 6 January 2017
| Current Residential Location |
Ex-POW Europe | Ex-POW Japan | Ex-POW Korea |
| NSW |
25 | 40 | 3 |
| VIC |
21 | 23 | 0 |
| QLD |
14 | 22 | 1 |
| SA |
7 | 8 | 1 |
| WA |
13 | 10 | 1 |
| TAS |
2 | 3 | 0 |
| NT |
2 | 0 | 0 |
| ACT |
3 | 0 | 0 |
| Overseas |
0 | 1 | 0 |
| Total WW2 Ex-POWs remaining: | 194 |
| WW2 deaths since Sept 2016 report: | 23 |
| Total Korean Ex-POWs remaining: | 6 |
| Korean deaths since Sept 2016 report: | 0 |
| Average Age of remaining Ex-POWs: |
| Europe 94.9 years old |
| Japan 95.6 years old |
| Korea 88.5 years old |
