Minnesota Spirit Quest - MnSQ: Forest Hills Cemetery
The cache is not located near a grave... Please be respectful and cache in, trash out. Also, please only search for cache during daylight hours.
At the posted coordinates, you should look for the grave of Army Private Chester, an infantryman with the Headquarters Company of the 58 Infantry Regiment serving in World War I. Tough to find anything about this soldier with only one name, but it did not slip by me that he passed away when he was 22/23. Remember, World War I ended in 1918, the year Private Chester died.
The regiment was organized in 1917 from the Fourth Infantry as shown on the distinctive unit insignia; the field is blue for Infantry; the regiment served in France in the Fourth Division, shown by the ivy leaves from the shoulder sleeve insignia; the torpedo commemorates the first losses of the regiment when the troopship RMS Moldavia carrying some of the regiment was torpedoed on 23 May 1918; the broken chevron commemorates the piercing of the German line between Soissons and Rheims, which are represented by the silver and golden fleurs-de-lis taken from the coat of arms of those cities, respectively.
On the gravestone, he was born in the year 18_ _. Consider this AB.
Then:
N44 46.(154 - AB)
W93 56.(899 + AB)
More info thanks to Holy Strollers ...
Private Chester's name was Chester Peter Buescher. He was born in Young America, Minnesota, on December 22, 1895, the second of seven children born to Henry Busecher and Katharine Buescher, nee Heimkes. He had five sisters and one brother.
He completed school through the eighth grade, then quit to become a farm laborer. He aspired to become a farmer. He was a wrestler and a good boxer. He was inducted into the Army on September 22, 1917, trained at Camp Dodge, Iowa, and arrived in the European theater of operations on May 11, 1918. He is known to have fought in the Third Battle of the Aisne, May 27, 1918 - June 6, 1918, and the Second Battle of the Marne, July 15, 1918 - August 6, 1918. The Second Battle of the Marne was the last major German offensive on the Western Front of World War I. He was killed in action on the last day of the battle.
At the time of his death he was 22 years, 7 months and 15 days old.