IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ADD TO THIS SERIES, PLEASE CONTACT THE SERIES OWNER (SEE BELOW) We are often told (correctly, if somewhat ideologically), that geocaches should take us to somewhere "interesting", and not simply be placed just for the sake of it. The aim of this series is to try and adhere to this ideal by basing caches around details given on an Information Board about the area in which it is situated. By definition, it is hoped that this information will be "interesting", and will help the cacher discover things about the area that would often not be revealed by a traditional cache.
People from the Staddon Road and Anvil Corner part of Holsworthy Hamlets will quietly honour the airmen on January 14 with the laying of flowers at the crash site. It was on that date in 1944 that a four-engine RAF Halifax bomber, on a navigation exercise from Yorkshire, crashed at night in fields near Anvil Corner after an engine fire spread through the plane killing all six flight crew. The aircrew were aged from 19 to 24. Holsworthy historian Charles Cornish was one of the first to arrive at the crash site. He said: "My brother in law was in the Home Guard and was the first there. I got there soon afterward with Dr Charles Evans, but there was nothing we could do, they had all been killed. "Every year on January 14 flowers are laid at the site, as they will be this year." The aircrew were from Canada, Australia and Great Britain and Mr Cornish has managed to contact three of their families to tell them about the annual memorial flower laying ceremony.
I hope that you find this an interesting variation on the caching experience. For a full list of all FYI caches in the series, please go to https://www.geocaching.com/bookmarks/view.aspx?code=BM4RZ8H If you would like to add to the series, please contact Airtomoreira, by emailing him via the geocaching website, or at fyigeocaching@outlook.com. He will allocate a series number to you, and give you some general guidance for placing your cache. If you already have a cache based on an Information Board, and would like to add it to the series, that would be no problem, again, please contact him for a series number.