Welcome to the All Roads Lead to Ballarat series. This is a series of caches placed on 20 of the roads that lead into Ballarat.
Remembrance Drive, also known as The Avenue of Honour, is the longest commemorative avenue of honour in Australia. Every memorial tree along The Avenue is accompanied by a gunmetal plaque with the name of one of the 3,801 service men and women from the City of Ballaarat who enlisted for World War I.
Remembrance Drive starts at the Arch of Victory at the roundabout intersection with Learmonth Road. It continues for 22km, passing underneath the Western Freeway overpass, and finishing at the intersection of Weatherboard Road, where there is a memorial cairn built in 1936 by the Ballarat and District Soldiers' Fathers Association.
This cache is one of two placed on Remembrance Drive, and is located at an appropriate location at one of the 12 Avenue of Honour Story Trail signboards that are placed along the length of road. It is even more appropriate that this particular storyboard is about war nurses, given that Chook is a nurse.
Turn off the main road into Chisholmes Road for safe parking and easiest access to the cache.