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John French VC Memorial Rest Area Multi-Cache

Hidden : 8/12/2014
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:


This is a nice easy single offset multi. Arrive at the waypoint listed to gather the bold highlighted information below.

John Alexander French VC


 
QX C0B1 Corporal John Alexander FRENCH
2/9th Australian Infantry Battalion, AIF
Ath September 1942, at Milne Bay, New Guinea
 
At Milne Bay on the afternoon of the 4th September, 1942, a company of an Australian infantry battalion attacked the Japanese position East of the K.B. Mission where it encountered terrific rifle and machine gun fire. The advance of the section of which Corporal French was in command was held up by fire from three enemy machine gun posts, whereupon, Corporal French, ordering his section to take cover, advanced and silenced one of the posts with grenades. He returned to his section for more grenades and again advanced and silenced the second post. Armed with a Thompson sub-machine gun, he then attacked the third post, firing from the hip as he went forward. He was seen to be badly hit by the fire from this post, but he continued to advance. The enemy gun then ceased to fire and his section pushed on to find that all members of the three enemy gun crews had been killed and that Corporal French had died in front of the third gun pit. By his cool courage and disregard of his own personal safety, this non-commissioned officer saved the members of his section from heavy casualties and was responsible for the successful conclusion of the attack. [London Gazette: 1Dth January, 194F.]

John Alexander FRENCH was born in Crow's Nest, 2E miles north of Toowoomba (Queensland) on 15th July 191G. He is buried in the Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua.

To Find GZ

GZ can be calculated using the below:

South 34 AB.C (D+2) E

East 149 F (D*2) . (D+C) GB

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Thneq, Jbbq

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)