Heroism In Ashdon Traditional Cache

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Boomtown Cats: I have moved out of the Area and unable to carry out maintenance on this historic cache. I have always admired this brave lady, and am very pleased that I met her son when setting this cache.
Thank you all who have found it and left your comments

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Hidden : 5/24/2009
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is in tribute to a brave young mother who risked her own life to save the lives of the aircrew of a stricken American bomber during WW2.


A Havoc bomber and the crash site.

On 27th May 1944, Elizabeth Everitt a nurse was at her home at Puddle Wharf Farm, when a Douglas A-20 Havoc American Bomber that had just taken off from the US base at Little Walden, crashed in a nearby field after colliding with an American fighter.
Mrs Everitt ran to the aircraft and managed to pull out one badly burnt airman who lived.
But on her return to the burning aircraft to try to save the rest of the crew, the bombs on the plane exploded killing her and the remaining crew members along with another US airman who was cycling through Ashdon and also rushed to save the helpless aircrew.

It was ultimately Elizabeth Everitt's selfless act of heroism that she is the only civilian to be named on the village war memorial and one of the very few women to be awarded the Albert Medal for gallantry.
Her husband had died the year before, and she left behind a 4 year old son, who was brought up by his Aunt and Uncle after the accident.
In 1945 her son went with his uncle to Buckingham Palace to receive the Bronze Albert Medal that was posthumously awarded to his mother.
On the back of the medal is an inscription:
“In recognition of her conspicuous gallantry when a bomber crashed near her home 27th May 1944''.

According to the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association, of the 572 Albert Medals awarded in its history only 16 women ever received it.

Her son who still lives in the village, has kindly given his premission for this cache to be set in memory to his mother.
(Sadly Tony Everitt has passed away)

When you face the cache site, look to the field on your left with the single tree on the bordering hedge row. The aircraft crashed a couple of 100 yards in front of this tree.

The container is a plastic clip top that contains a log book and a few small toys for swaps, also a new micro cache container plus log for the first to find.



Quote: ''Please be careful how you replace the cache because the ditch is deep and full of brambles and large thorns. You don't want to have to go down there and it was very difficult to retrieve the cache.'' (Thanks to Balsham Boxers for retrieving it the last time it fell in)

First to Find 24th May 2009 by Stones2005

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Oruvaq Q 8P

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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