Lone Cross on a Lone Hill in the Southern Midlands of Tasmania. скачать в хорошем качестве

Lone Cross on a Lone Hill in the Southern Midlands of Tasmania.

Lone Cross on a Lone Hill in the Southern Midlands of Tasmania. Just outside Melton Mowbray on the way to Bothwell in Tasmania's Southern Midlands there is a simple white cross on top of a hill. The memorial sits on a peak called Sugarloaf and it is a tribute to a young pilot who led a bomber crew over Germany. Jack Mitchell was killed in action in World War Il along with six other crewmen when his Lancaster bomber was shot down while returning form a bombing raid. Before he left for the war Jack went to the top of the hill and wedged a stick between some rocks saying "I wonder if this will be here when I come home". When he heard the news of his death Jack's father Cliff Mitchell replaced the stick at the top of the hill with a wooden cross. The original cross eventually rotted and fell down. In 1981 local landowner Tony Bisdee learnt about the story and made a three-metre-high cross of tubular steel which he set in concrete at the top of the hill. The cross still stands on top of Sugarloaf with a plaque dedicating it to Jack Mitchell and his crewmen. An annual service is held at the memorial on January 22 every year, the day the bomber went down in 1944.