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