Ancestors - Greensborough Cemetery Greensborough, Victoria, Australia
By stagetree on 16-Mar-10. Waypoint GC2549D

Hide site and cache have disappeared so it is time to retire this one.

I solved the puzzle a long time ago and today was the day to sign the log. Unfortunately, like others before me, I could not find the cache. I really think this one is no longer.

Solved coordinates but cache was not their

Looked in various possible locations. No luck

Couldn’t find it I think it’s gone missing or I have bad eye site

Not Found at 13:52
After a quick set of calculations I headed across to the obvious location but there was no cache home.
Thanks stagetree for the cache

First ever geocache found

Thank u for bringing us to this lovely little corner. We enjoyed reading the many head stones.

Out tonight to fill another date in the calendar. I have walked and driven past here on numerous occasions over the years but I have never been in. Tonight I enjoyed this quick multi. My phones GPS took forever to settle so I must admit I used the hint. Thank you for the cache and for allowing me to stop and read the headstones. TFTC stagetree

A very nice little multi, in an odd little cemetery. TFTC!

Date: 19 January 2020 Time: 2:34 pm
Find #10880

Out caching this afternoon with beckNmonts and BuhFuhGuh. After the event in Whittlesea, we headed out to see what we could find.

Always love a good multi and this one didnt take too long. Nice quick find too.

Many thanks to stagetree for the cache. TNLN.

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*14th / 15th November 2020 – GC8EW40 – Whittlesea – Victoria*

After the event nearby, we headed this way, towards a group of multis. Now this one was basically legal for me to find . A nice small cemetery here. Thanks for placing the cache stagetree, and going to the effort of making it a multi.

This cache has been in my solved list for way too long. Today as I came off the Ring Road I had time to make a short detour to sign this nicely constructed multi TFTC stagetree

Nice! First of this type. Easy find. Added a sticker in log.

Never would have known this cemetery was here.
TFTC

5:29 pm #8078
Interesting little cemetery here. A quick find once we had the correct info.
Cheers stagetree

Had managed to work out the finals for this one at home from one of Mrs Papi's family history sites. GZ seemed to be viable but no cache could be found. We walked up to the actual grave and were surprised to find that the dates on the headstone are different to those on line. The corrections were made and another short walk had the cache in hand. Thanks for placing a cache here. Very interesting little cemetery. A favourite for showing us this.

Thanks for this little multi and bringing us to see a little bit of local history. We never would have known this cemetery was here. All in good order.

Lovely spot I would have been unlikely to come across otherwise. Tftc.

Found with my geodog

Found! What a lovely spot

Our 100th cache! Always fun to do a multi -- thanks stagetree!

Found. TFTC.

The soldiers’ graves seem to be in the best repair here - quite a few of the others have been damaged. Sgt Sims’ grave was located quickly, and the numbers led to a simple find. Thanks stagetree

Quick find while playing another geolocation game which shall remain nameless. Actually found the cache first, but made sure to visit the grave for the clues anyway. Such a sad waste of life so close to the end of World War I. And an interesting little pocket cemetery in the suburbs. Thanks for bringing me here.

Found quickly after some calculations. TFTC.

I've usually had trouble pinpointing graves when I've done cemetery caches in the past, but I was able to find Reginald's grave straight away. After a quick calculation I made my way to GZ and found the nicely hidden cache.
Thanks stagetree

In Melbourne staying with family and making the most of the nice weather and my bike, by heading into the city and starting on some of the Parkville series. I know I won't have time for all of them, on the Mega weekend. I managed to grab some other hides, that I hadn't already found, as I meandered along some bike paths, that I hadn't travelled before. I made some great discoveries, clever hides and generally enjoyed the caches I found, and my time in the area.

Stopped in here to find this little cemetery, right in the heart of surburbia. Grabbed the info needed to come up with some likely co-ords and was rewarded after looking in the obvious place.

Thanks stagetree for placing the cache for us to find and doing the maintenance to keep it in play.
8018

I needed a nice simple cemetery cache for a challenge I'm slowly working towards. This fit the bill perfectly. After determining the location of the relevant grave I quickly had the numbers and observing the relevant paths I headed to GZ. Cache found in the logical spot.

I have been wanting to find this cache for a while, I see the cemetery from the train where the corresponding church would have been and wanted to find the cache. Well, I went out this evening with a bone chilling cold front at the site of the Sgts memorial. I solved the details relatively quickly, but paid regard to this man who died away from his county in battle. Of particular pertinence was a significant anniversary of the man's passing.
I had to retreat to the car it was getting so cold. Meanwhile, a couple with a dog had a quick look around. I came out again and made a quick find of the cache.
I had a look around and noticed some of graves facing the neighbours fence and how the suburb has sprung up around it. Some are in good condition, some are illegible and some the writing on grave has disappeared. Thanks for the cache.

Found on 28 May 2018 at 3:42 pm.
With another day off to keep my annual leave days low so as to be given bonus holidays I headed out on the bike in the perfect overcast weather so no sun screen was required. I had never been over this area of the city and was keen to check out this bushland and it's surrounds. Much steeper than I expected in some locations but some cool caches were found. It was awesome on Monday with virtually no muggles where ever I went compared to sometimes on the weekends when it is crazy.

After a ride around the bush for a little and a more leisurely ride along the side of the M80 I then continued around this area and back into the bush.
I was just about to go back to the car and my son rang so while I was waiting on the phone for a situation to be resolved I gathered the clues and made the short trip to GZ.
Thanks stagetree for the cache, the adventure, the hunt and the fun.

What an interesting little spot tucked around busy Greensborough. Easy multi with quick find. I was surprised that a lot of the headstones are in such good condition considering their age. I got talking to an older gent walking his dog who told me their must be a society fixing the headstones as he has noticed them being repaired slowly. He also pointed out a board (near WP1) that lists all the graves.
A fav point for this unique spot.
TFTC

We love cemetery hides! Just arrived from the US (after a week in New Zealand), stopped by to grab this one before unloading all our luggage at our next temporary home. Thanks for the fun multi, we had a good time!

TFTC Just flew in today from NZ, and then before that from Northern Wisconsin, USA, with Mocrin and Aix sponsa. Nice hide and interesting cemetery.

The final was a quick find when we had the information needed to seek the final. Caching with lostcheq and Mocrin. Thanks for the cemetery cache. In Australia for the first time from the States.

In the dead centre of town, people are dying to get in here, a nice & easy multi found on a hot & humid day.

We have been to this little cemetery before so we were not surprised.
Thanks for bringing us back and for this nice simple multi today.
TFTC

TFTC! Love visiting cemeteries and learning about our history.

Well we had 2 extra GeoKiddies with us today so that only meant one thing ...... Caching. We had been past the cemetery on the train only yesterday and I quickly remembered this Multi was here.
Great one for the GeoKids to do on there own.
TFTC

Spending a day this side of Melbourne we targeted Multis and Mysteries with the added bonus of DT as well. We enjoyed our small wander through this pretty cemetery while gathering the clues for GZ.
Thanks stagetree for highlighting Greenborough's ancestors.

So much history contained in such a small space. Thank you for bringing me to this memorial to an earlier era.

Mainly targeting multis today, this was a nice hidden gem. Such a pretty small cemetery in A now very residential area. Thanks stagetree for showing me this today. Did the calculations and found the cache exactly where the description suggested.

13:49, 4 March 17, Find #191, Out for the day caching with vamp1blade, smurff78, and becstar. This one reminded myself and Steven of the cemetery cache we did in Williamstown but on a very very smaller scale. This was a bit of fun for all of us and it didn't take long till we had the GZ sorted and were headed down to collect the cache.. once there it was a quick find ... SLTNLN TFTC. a great little spot for a quick cache.

Found after being in the area getting my car serviced
TFTC

Yeah ! Another one bites the dust !!! Found with Steve, Tim & Bec. SL, TFTC

I would never have known about this cemetery if not for caching. Found on an afternoon caching adventure with Tim, Steve and Bec.

Thanks for the hide.

Enjoyed that one.... had to look like I was doing some 'research' as there were some dog walkers around. But the snatch and sign went off with no issues.
TFTC

Somehow I was oblivious to the existence of this cemetery when I was a local resident. All those times I was nearby, traveling on the train, ordering a Big Mac or watching a *Nightmare On Elm Street* sequel, the deceased were barely a stone's throw away! Today the required information was found very swifly and coordinates were constructed. Wrongly at first. A data entry error meant I intially strolled a more or less appropriate distance but in the wrong direction. But one errant digit was replaced and I suddenly had the cache in hand. Thanks stagetree!

Never knew of this cemetery and its history. TFTC

Great find Thankyou even found a munzee!!!!

A nice short multi whilst walking in the neighbourhood.
Have an affinity for cemeteries bearing tributes to our war dead and thought this cache would be worth following up. And glad I did.

Some quick research on the Australian War Memorial and CWGC websites revealed:
998 Sergeant Reginald Emerson Sims
37th Australian Infantry Battalion
Killed In Acton 10th of August 1918
Buried in Heath Cemetery, Harbonnieries, Picardie, France.

I have included an image from the AWM website that is captioned "988 Sergeant Reginald Emerson Sims, 37th Battalion from Greensborough, Victoria. A 25 year old post office porter prior to enlisting on 22 January 1916, he embarked for overseas as a Corporal with C Company from Melbourne on 3 June 1916 aboard HMAT Persic. "

His tombstone reads:
***To our dear boy who gave his life for others.***

Son of John Emerson Sims and Eliza Jane Sims, of "Camelot," Greensborough, Victoria, Australia.
Born at Horsham, Victoria

**Lest we forget.**

SL TFTC

Picking up Benjoda this evening left me with a little time up my sleeve for this local short multi.

I was pleased it was as straight forward as if was and the short walk to the final was quick and easy.

There is something to be said for visiting cemeteries after dark. The mystery is increased but all the more enjoyed.

Thanks for bringing me here tonight Stagetree.

Out and about with Gunks when discovered this cache. TFTC

Found tonight with grumpy gramps, picking up a few last caches before next week when he returns to the uk. TFTC

Nice hide for my 1st multi. Thanks

Tftc

Tftc

I have been spending the month with my quest to qualify for the Multicache Month Challenge so I came to Greensborough to get the last 4 that I need to get a total of 31 for the month.
This was the third of the four that I needed. I quickly gathered the required information and soon the cache was in hand. TFTC,

Out on a lovely summer day. Filling in some school holiday time.

Another nice walk in the local area.
But weird where all the graves face.

Found while out on a bike ride with the kids. I live close by but never knew this cemetery was here, so thanks for showing us a little piece of local history. TFTC

Quick cache before school pickup. TFTC
Lived in the area for years and never knew this was here!

Heading over to Bundoora to visit an old mate and I just can't get that far without stopping for a cache or two, multi's today.
What started out as a small country cemetery certainly changes in character over 150 years. Thanks for bringing me here, nice easy find.
Thanks for placing this cache stagetree

Celebrating our first multi-cache

Found with Sabelais123 TFTC!

Another ancestors cache with Prin666cess TFTC

Find 2051
22/05/2015 6:34:00 PM

Out with Stemicmitsar for our regular Friday night/ Saturday morning run. We set ourselves the goal of completing six multis before midnight so we could qualify for a particular challenge cache. This didn't leave us much time for other caches so our numbers were down somewhat.
Having DNF'd at a nearby multi, we headed here as there wasn't much involved in calculating GZ. We discussed this cache in the car and as we approached, looked out and thought, "there's a good chance that that is GZ". We backed our judgment and in less than a minute, Steve had the cache in hand. No calculations or GPS's needed. The quickest multi either of us has ever done or will probably ever do.

Thank-you to stagetree for placing this geocache

22/05/2015 Found @ 6:34 pm, Find # 4386.

Out on another Friday night and into Saturday morning cache run with Biggles1024, tonight we set about finding as many Multi's as we could this was one of them.
We had a very slow start to the night and a DNF so this was our first for the night which turned out to be a new record for the quickest multi find for us.
After reading the cache page we had an idea as to where GZ may be so when we arrived, that is where we went, it was then a very quick cache find.
We needed that one to get us rolling for the rest of the night.

Thanks to stagetree for placing this cache.

Geokid (9yo) very proud of herself as this was her first multi that she worked on herself. Found the final GZ quickly. Thanks for bringing us to this little bit of Greensborough.

What a small, seemingly forgotten cemetery. Cache was quickly found. TFTC.

Found it

Out early this morning so as to get 1 cache for the day and continue our steak of days with a cache.

I must say that after reading the cache page at home I was pretty sure that I knew where the cache was hidden before I got to the GZ. But as I arrived I thought that I would do the right thing and crunch the numbers. With said numbers crunched the trusty Garmin was pointing me to the spot where I thought the cache would be, and within seconds I had the cache in hand.

Thanks for the cache stagetree.

Another lovely, quiet place so close to the bustle of the nearby shopping centre.
As I am still relatively new to this hobby I read the logs before I arrived and was pretty sure that I knew where the cache would be. After solving the puzzle I walked straight to GZ and retrieved the cache.
Thanks stagetree for this hide. It was different to the ones that I have previously found and has given me confidence to tackle similar ones.

Solved the headstone clue. Pretty sure we were at the right coordinates but cache was nowhere to be found. Have noticed that no one else has found since November so wondering if still here and not missing. If anyone knows. Great spot, disappointed we couldn't find

Tried pretty hard, but could not locate, anyone else done this one recently?

Warm day but no one was around which made it easy. TFTC.

TFTC

Interesting place, a bit busier than I expected. Thank you for the cache!

Finding stuff in my local area I never knew existed. TFTC.

Tftc. Interesting place to walk around

nice spot played here as a kid

Found out the point ages ago but the container was missing. Hubby has been working nearby regularly but keeps forgetting to look for it. We are at a 30th nearby, picked it up in the dark.

Fun puzzle, only one place it could be

It's always good to find out a bit of local history.
Nice easy find on nice sunny autumn afternoon.

Thanks Stagtree for a great cache.

A nice little puzzle offset. My daughter quickly found the cache at GZ. We noticed a bit of trash while exploring this cemetery, and sadly some graffiti, so grabbed a plastic bag to gather it up. Thanks for the cache Stagetree

Great Cache. Thank you. Would never have known this location existed.

Found with Guney on a afternoon cache run. Signed log.
Thanks stagetree for the cache

A nice cache - interesting location

Interesting cemetery hide away from busy road.
Found it nicely...
Took my time to look around.
Thanks stagetree for the hunting and cache

Nice little puzzle

Found it. TFTC

spiders all over the container

it was covered in spiders

Wow what a fantastic piece of history right smack bang in the middle of suburbia, made our way around the area and gathered the required co-ord's and we soon found the cache a short time later. Thanks stagetree for the cache and for highlighting this interesting area to us.

Find No.#133 & scored a Munzee too.
Visited Travelling Soldier & Travel Bug Dog Tag
TNLN SL TFTC stagetree

Found this afternoon, had already worked out the wp previously but sadly last time had to log a dnf due to a missing cache, however today able to make a quick grab and happily signed away, tftc stagetree.

Woohoo! First for the new logbook. TNLNSL I had to change my username because fitting InterpreterSarah on nano logs was too hard. Now I'll be known as GeoTerps So, new name in a new logbook. TFTC.

Dropped by to check on this cache...... and it was gone, again!
Container and new log book in place. It's good to go again.

Pretty sure I searched the right spot...guess I'll try again if someone logs a find

Spent too long on this with 2 lil geokidA few Muggles around but with two little ones you can get away with a bit. I have discovered that my phone GPS is about 4 metres out but I still had no luck and normally I have no trouble with finding caches. I am sure I had the GPS point correct but am sure I know where it should be. But I believe it has been recently painted so maybe it has been muggled. Family lives very nearby so will come back