Cuckfield Connections

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...

The quality of reproduction of the map in this Sussex Agricultural Express article is not that great but it gives some sense of where...

The Urban Council has decided to insure the Queen's Hall, now in use as a Red Cross Hospital, against aircraft risks, and also their...

In 1998 ninety year old Downlands Care Home resident Olive Beatrice Caplan gave a short interview for Cuckfield Museum and recalled her...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 21 December 1909 DEATH OF A CRIMEAN VETERAN. We regret to record the death of Ex-Sergt. William Godsmark, the...

Sussex Agricultural Express - Friday 10 September 1915 FLIES ILL-MANNERED CREATURES Writing to Mrs C.H.Waugh from the Dardanelles, a...

A senior non-commissioned officer, Frank Lloyd, was one of 53 men left behind to man the Fort 'Abraham Lincoln' at the time of the Battle...

Sussex Agricultural Express - Saturday 06 January 1900 CAPTAIN SERGISON AT THE FRONT Letters have been received from Captain Sergison, of...