Cuckfield Connections

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 06 July 1915 A POST OFFICE RIFLEMAN, writing from France to a friend in Cuckfield, says the battalion has seen...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 06 July 1915 FROM “SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE” Rifleman Frank Rowland, of the 4th Battalion Rifle Brigade, son of Mr....

Mid Sussex Times - Wednesday 01 November 1944 D.F.C. FOR F/O COBB. COURAGE OF A CUCKFIELD MAN Twenty-two year old Flying Officer Henry...

On Thursday evening a drill of tbe 'A' and 'B' (Cuckfield) Companies of Volunteers of the 2nd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment took place...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 09 March 1915 THE CHURCH SCHOOLS. —A temporary Roll of Honour sheet has been bought by the boys of the above...

I was browsing through the web pages of Barry Ray’s excellent Slaugham Archive website and I came across the page on Chownes Mead which...

Chownes Mead, Cuckfield, for a time, was the home of Lord Woolton, the man credited with ‘keeping the nation fed’ throughout World War...

Here is the inside account of Cuckfield Hospital after it was taken over by the Canadian army in 1942. Gordon Muggeridge memories were...

Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Friday 21 September 1928 END OF MIMIC WAR. Clever Tactics in Final Battle. CUCKFIELD, Thursday Sussex is no...

In the final part of three instalments we read about what Richard Chatfield did after he left the army and how how he retired to Ansty....

In the first instalment we learned how a young Richard Chatfield worked at the Talbot Inn as an ostler. Now we read how he joined the...

Old Sergeant's Memories In a quiet Sussex village a gallant old hero is spending the remainder of his days in such peace as rheumatism...

Astounding details were given at Whitehill (Hants) of the career of P. Seymour Kelly, 21, who was charged with obtaining food and lodging...

West Sussex Gazette - Thursday 28 January 1915 CUCKFIELD. The 6th (Cyclist) Battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment is stationed along the...

Sussex Agricultural Express - Friday 26 November 1915 SOLDIER'S EXPERIENCES.- Through the kindness Mrs. Bourne, Beeching's Farm, we are...

In the Cuckfield Urban District, which comprises Haywards Heath, Cuckfield and Lindfield, 13 high explosive bombs and three groups of...

Sussex Agricultural Express - Friday 24 December 1915 HOW THE CUCKFIELD BOYS ARE GETTING ON —Writing to Mr. Hayden of Haywards Heath,...

Sussex Advertiser - Wednesday 30 March 1864 A soldier in a fix. Cuckfield Court —A discharged private of the 43rd Light Infantry,...

The codeword signified an attack by pilotless aircraft. Th« vanguard of the long-expactad robot armada had been sighted. That first V1...

by Mr OF Brown ARP Organiser for Cuckfield RDC Unless we are prepared to make some sacrifice to defend this freedom which we so enjoy...