Today we woke to what looked to be a warm day, so being a tough Tasmanian shorts and tee shirt. and it was freezing.

Today was planned for a small amount of caching and a visit to the Memorial.

On the way called into Blundells Cottage. 

Blundells Cottage, was built in 1860 to house Duntroon's head ploughman, William Ginn, and his family (1860-1874). It was then occupied by George Blundell, a Duntroon bullock driver and his family (1874-1933) and finally by shepherd Harry Oldfield and his wife Alice (1933-1958). When Harry died in 1942, Alice took in boarders. This included the Sainsbury family, who lived at the cottage between 1958 and 1960.

For more info https://www.nca.gov.au/attractions/blundells-cottage

We visited the memorials along Anzac Drive 

Then up to the War Memorial   

We were very please to see the memorial for Teddy Sheehan. 

Hanging from the ceiling was a German Flying bomb, my father told me thay used to bomb London and were called doodle bugs

There are many diorama's throughout the museum 

Somme winter, 1916–17 depicts a trench located west of Gueudecourt. It shows the grim conditions Australians fought and lived in. The small funk hole, roofed by duckboard and covered with a waterproof sheet, is where the men mostly slept during winter. 

Other diorama's include - for further info https://www.awm.gov.au/visit/visitor-information/features/dioramas

Finished the tour in the Hall of Remembrance and the Hall of Memory

   

Inside the Hall of Memory is the Tomb of the Unknown Australian Soldier.

Plans to honour an unknown Australian soldier were first put forward in the 1920s, but it was not until 1993 that one was at last brought home. To mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the First World War, the body of an unknown Australian soldier was recovered from Adelaide Cemetery near Villers-Bretonneaux in France and transported to Australia. After lying in state in King’s Hall in Old Parliament House, the Unknown Australian Soldier was interred in the Hall of Memory on 11 November 1993. He was buried in a Tasmanian blackwood coffin, on which were placed a bayonet and a sprig of wattle. Soil from the Pozières battlefield in France was scattered in his tomb.

Caching total to date - 114 - 20 Trad, 32 puzzles, 33 virtual, 6 multi, 5 earth, 2 trig, 16 letterbox and 1 travel bug