Lest We Forget : Inverharroch Multi-Cache
Lest We Forget : Inverharroch
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The Cabrach is Scotland’s obvious testament to the waste of young life in wartime. The great numbers of tumbledown crofts and steadings you see in that triangle bounded by Dufftown, Rhynie and Lumsden happened not because of land policy or the Depression or a series of bad farming years. They happened because virtually all the fighting-age men and boys went off to war in 1914 did not return.
They believed politicians and newspaper leader-writers who said that the more men who joined up, and the quicker they did it, the sooner the enemy would be defeated and the earlier they could be home. It was the original “home by Christmas”.
We all know now that it didn’t happen that way. Many died either in battle or because they succumbed to measles, to which they had no immunity because they came from such a self-contained community.
The women, children and old folk they had left behind to keep the crofts ticking over for the implied four months could not survive beyond a second Cabrach winter and eventually had to find accommodation and work elsewhere. They abandoned the crofts, and what you see a century later was once described by a Dutch academic historian as “the biggest war memorial in Europe”.
The above co ords take you to this brand new memorial (2015) here you will need to do some simple counting to find the final hidey place of the cache box which is not far away at N57.22. ABC W003.02. XYZ
A ~ Number of letters in 2nd word, 7th line
B ~ 2nd digit of year date 9th line
C ~ Number of letters in 2nd word of the last line
X ~3rd digit of year date 9th line
Y ~ Number of letters in 1st word last line
Z ~ Number of letters in 2nd word 6th line
Quiet roads, parking on grass verge at top of road opposite memorial
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