Garden of Remembrance Traditional Cache
QvdM: Not there anymore. As I have moved out of Gauteng I archive the caches as they go missing.
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The remains of 74 British and Colonial soldiers, who were buried at Klip River, Meyerton, Vereeniging, Viljoensdrift and Engelbrechtsdrift, were buried in the Garden of Remembrance.
The soldiers were killed in the Vereeniging/ Meyerton district during the Anglo-Boer war of 1899-1902.
The cast-iron gravestones and granite memorial, bearing the names of the British, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand soldiers, bring to mind those who fought and perished in a strange land, far from their loved ones.
The cache is a small container little bigger than a film container. It is camouflaged and it includes a pencil, sharpener, and log sheet.
To get to the Garden you need to enter the grounds of the Maccauvlei Golf Club. The entrance is controlled but you will have no problem in getting inside. Just say you are coming to see the monument.
Some stealth could be needed as golfers and caddies are nearby!
Just a small note to give some background on the reason behind the placement of a monument there.
Maccauvlei Golf Club grounds are built on a very historical piece of land. If you drive in through the entrance you will see the remains of the original railroad bridge that was blown up by the Boers in the Boer war.
Maccauvlei Golf Club is also on of the places in Vereeniging that the English used as a base camp and some Boer POW was housed there as well.
This is why the monument was erected at that spot. Some of the graves is the original graves of English solders that died in and around the Vereeniging are. Other graves are from English soldiers that died in battle elsewhere and that was relocated there.
Hope this explains the "silly" location for a monument.
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Gur pnpur vf uvqqra va gur fgbarjnyy gung fheebhaqf gur tneqra. Purpx gur svefg cubgb.