Following the examples of Church Micros and SideTracks, this hopefully growing series will be set out to mark the remembrance of our fallen. These caches asks you to get details from Commonwealth War graves (#LestWeForgetThem) or from Village, Town or City war memorials (#LestWeForget). All of these locations and individuals need to be treated with respect, so please be respectful in your hunt. They can be found on the Commonwealth website or app, but part of the fun of a mulit or puzzle - and part of the point in creating this series - was to get people to visit the graves of those who fell, and all were designed around this purpose. If you do visit the graves, please take a note of all the details, as more caches may be released for both this cemetery and the series.
Loughborough Cemetry has the commonwealth war graves of 81 heroes from at least three countries. This is one of a series of caches based on these graves, as using them all in one puzzle would have been intense.
Major Jenkin Lloyd
I have been unable to find out much about Major Lloyd, who is the highest ranked officer buried in Loughborough Cemetery. Jenkin Lloyd (Jnr) was born in London in 1892 to Mary and Jenkin Lloyd, third youngest of eight children. He married in 1916 to Constance at the age of 24. He died on the 1st September 1942 in Loughborough as Major Lloyd (Service number 112753) of the Pioneer Corps, where his commonwealth stone is.
I would love to fill in more detail about his life so we can remember him properly - if you have any more information or picture of him, please get in touch through the Geocaching website.
To find the cache, simply complete this jigdi puzzle.
#LestWeForgetThem 009 - Loughborough - Major Lloyd
The plan was to use his military picture for the puzzle so as to put name to face, but unfortunately I couldn't find one, so I have used a picture of the CWG. Remember to log in to Jidgi to save your progress should the window shut
For more LestWeForget or LestWeForgetThem caches, please check out this list:
https://www.geocaching.com/plan/lists/BM9HTTH?sort=name&sortOrder=asc&skip=0&take=100