The Cache
The cache is a nano container hidden in a residential area with views across Lodge Hill Cemetery. Whilst the location itself shouldn't provide too much dificultly, be aware that the cache is overlooked by several houses and is close to a busy bus stop so stealth will be required. Please replace the container as found once you have a sufficient gap in the muggles!
The History of Lodge Hill Cemetery
Lodge Hill Cemetery was opened in 1895 as a site of 17 acres, and expanded to cover 61 acres in 1925. In 1937 the site saw the opening of Birmingham's first municipal crematorium. The area was significantly remodelled in the 1990s in order to accomodate newer memorials,
The War Memorial and Graves
Information sourced from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission:
"The First World War saw four important hospitals - besides many smaller - posted at Birmingham: the 1st Southern General (3,500 beds) was in the university and other buildings, with a section at Stourbridge; the 2nd/1st Southern General (1,800 beds) in the Dudley Road Infirmary and in billets; the 1st Birmingham War Hospital (1,000 beds) at Rubery Hill Asylum and the 2nd Birmingham War Hospital (900 beds) at Hollymoor Asylum.
Military hospitals were at Birmingham again during the Second World War, including No 7 Canadian Hospital at Marston Green. Birmingham and Coventry were among the chief manufacturing areas producing materials for the war effort and were subjected to many devastating air raids during the Blitz of 1940-41.
BIRMINGHAM (LODGE HILL) CEMETERY contains 498 First World War burials, most of them in a war graves plot in Section B10. The names of those buried in the plot, or in graves elsewhere in the cemetery which could not be individually marked, are inscribed on a Screen Wall. Second World War burials number 125, most of them scattered throughout the cemetery, although there is a small plot in Section 2E.
BIRMINGHAM MUNICIPAL CREMATORIUM stands within the cemetery. In the chapel, there is a bronze plaque commemorating 48 servicemen of the Second World War whose remains were cremated there"
Source: http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/45005/Birmingham%20(Lodge%20Hill)%20Cemetery
Thanks to Geohatter for the review
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