Vilmos Nagy of Nagybaczon was born in Transylvania in 1884, son of a poor mining engineer. He received his military training and education in Hungary and was commissioned into the Hungarian Army after he finished his studies. He was an able soldier who proceeded up the ladder of military advancement by merit. He was also Defence Minister of Hungary for 9 months in the early 1940's, but resigned when his humane treatment of Jews caused his persecution by the Hungarian officer corps.
After the fascist Arrow Cross came to power in the autumn of 1944 he was arrested and taken to several concentration camps. He finally was liberated by the American Army, but only return home in 1946.
In the communist era he was also persecuted, he lost his apartment and house and had his military pension withdrawn. He was sent into internal exlie for several years and it was only when his old school friend, by then the president of Romania, intervened on his behalf that he had those returned to him. His wife died early due to the privation of exile. He, however, lived a long and happy life, surrounded by his family and never lost his yest for life. He died in 1976, aged 92.
His grave in Piliscsaba cemetery, where he is buried with his wife, has been accepted as a National Memorial and there is also a memorial plaque in the courtyard of the Museum of MIlitary History in Budapest.
The box is hidden at a height of 6 feet (1.8m) in a forest object, about 40 metres from the Northern fence corner of the water reservoir at the end of Dévényi Antal street.