PM #2 Heroes & Veterans Traditional Cache
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a micro placed to celebrate armed forces and veterans day.
BRING YOUR OWN PEN/PENCIL.
BRING YOUR OWN TWEEZERS TO EXTRACT THE LOG SHEET.
This is a micro placed on the 26th June 2009 , the day before the first armed forces and veterans day. This can be done as a cache and dash but please when signing remember those who gave so much in the past and those who do so today. May the Grand Architect return them to their loved ones as soon as possible and in one piece with sound mind.
This is a stand alone cache for all members not just premium members and is not part of my chain; however it does have one characteristic of the chain.
Look around and you may spy the portrait of a hero from the 19th and early 20th century. He took part in the Anglo-Zulu War and was given command of the left column of the army that crossed the Zulu frontier, and shortly afterwards he received the local rank of brigadier general. Defeated at Hlobane, he recovered and decisively beat the Zulus at Kambula and also took part in the final battle at Ulundi.
At the close of the war, Evelyn Wood became a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath and was appointed to command the Chatham district. With the First Boer War going on, Wood was sent back to South Africa in January 1881 with the local rank of major general. He remained in Natal until February 1882, was awarded the Order of St Michael and St George and then returned to the Chatham command.
Wood was given command of a brigade in the Egyptian expedition in the Mahdist War. He was made Sirdar (commander) of the Egyptian Army until 1885, during which period he thoroughly reorganised it. He commanded the British at the Battle of Gennis. In 1886, he was allowed to return to Britain, promoted to lieutenant-general in 1891, Wood was given the Grand Cross in the Order of the Bath. He saw further service as quartermaster-general at the War Office and as adjutant-general.
Promoted to full general in 1895, Wood commanded the II Army Corps and Southern Command from 1901 to 1904. On 8 April 1903, Sir Evelyn Wood was promoted field marshal. That same year, he was also awarded the freedom of the Borough of Chelmsford. In 1907, he became colonel of the Royal Horse Guards. He was also a governor of Gresham's School from 1899 to 1919.
After retiring from active service, Sir Evelyn Wood VC became chairman of the Association for the City of London, and on 11 March 1911 he was appointed Constable of the Tower of London. In 1913 Wood was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Dulce decorum est pro patria mori, sed dulcius pro patria vivere ...
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