Mitford - A Stile-ish Trunk Multi-Cache
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Mitford - A Stile-ish Trunk
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This cache is one of 3 placed in Mitford in Northumberland; the church of St Mary Magdalene provides the answer to all the clues for the 3 caches so this is where you need to head for. The posted co-ordinates take you to a point near to the cache but to find the actual cache site you need to find the answer to the clues. Parking is available outside the church but we wouldn’t recommend going on a Sunday morning as it gets very busy. The caches can be linked together to form a walk of less than a mile. If you do the 3 together we’d suggest making A Stile-ish view the 2nd cache and starting with either of the other 2.
Brigadier Edward (Teddy) Cecil Osbaldeston Mitford was born in London on November 20 1908, the son of an officer in the Indian Army.
In the 1930s Mitford was one of several young officers who were fascinated by the desert and its lore, learned to speak Arabic fluently and explored widely. Together with others, he contributed to the development of the sun compass, which remained the only reliable means of desert navigation before the era of satellites and the Global Positioning System.
At the outbreak of the Second World War he was recruited to the Long Range Desert Group, on one occasion his patrol was caught in the open plain and bombed for more than an hour, fortunately they suffered no casualties. The next day, Mitford led a spirited attack on an Italian post at 'Ain Dua. Out on the plain, the LRDG's Bofors guns kept the enemy's heads down while a detachment fought a battle with the Libyan garrison. The Libyan troops had a number of killed and wounded; the patrol suffered no losses. Mitford was awarded an immediate MC.
He fought throughout the Second World War in North Africa, the Middle East and Europe before taking up various commands and staff positions after the war, including command of the 4th Armoured Brigade of the Arab Legion in Jordan. In 1957 he took his final position as military attache at the British Embassy in Ankara before retiring in 1960, but served as military assistant to the Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Command, until he finally retired from military service in 1966.
The Mitford family can trace their links to Mitford, Northumberland, back to the 12th century. In 1970, on the death of his father, Teddy Mitford took over the 4,000-acre family estate at Mitford. Some of the outlying farms were sold to finance the modernisation of others and to fund the refurbishment of Mitford Hall. Mitford's stewardship came to an end in 1992 and, there being no heir, most of the estate was sold the following year.
A man of considerable charm, the Brigadier, as Mitford was called by the villagers, worked tirelessly to raise money for the church and to support the life of the local community.
To find this cache you need to find the gravestone for Brigadier Osbaldeston-Mitford M.C. and note his age, this gives you AB. Please note you are looking for his age, don’t just look at the year he was born and the year he died as this will give you the wrong number. You need the age that he was when he died.
The cache is located at N 55° 09.90B W001° 43.6A7
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Ng gur onfr bs n ynetr gerr orfvqr n fgvyr.