Private Patrick Joseph Bugden Alstonville, New South Wales, Australia
By
Gullivers Travels54 on 08-Apr-23. Waypoint GA27198
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Virtual |
| Container: | Virtual |
| Coordinates: | S28° 50.354' E153° 26.339' (WGS 84) |
| 56J 542823E 6809746N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 152 m |
| Local Government Area: | Ballina |
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Description
A monument to one of our Victoria Cross receipients
Twenty-year-old Pat Bugden (1897-1917), a hotelkeeper from the north coast of New South Wales before enlistment, was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his outstanding bravery over three days during one of the Australians' successful step-by-step advances in late September 1917. On two occasions, when held up by intense fire from machine-guns, he led small parties to silence the enemy posts. Five times he rescued wounded men trapped by intense shelling and machine-gun fire. Once, seeing that an Australian corporal had been taken prisoner, he single-handedly rushed to his comrade's aid, shooting and bayoneting the enemy. He kept fighting until he was killed.
Logs
I was in town this morning to see the Dr AGAIN. As usual I drove past this twice, once on the way in and once on the way out of town. This time the idea of not 'finding' this virtual cache started gnawing away at my mind. I got a short distance up the road before I gave into the thought, did a u-turn, and came back to claim the find.
It's people like this whose character sounds really compelling that I wish I could have met at least once.
It's people like this whose character sounds really compelling that I wish I could have met at least once.
