War 3/8

Oct 8, 20222 min read

1794: Killer flies - several men dead

Sir Watkin William Wynne's regiment of militia, intended for Brighton Camp, have been stopped at Cuckfield, owing, it is said, to a...

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Oct 1, 20222 min read

1915: Cheery letter from Cuckfield Corporal on the front line

Mid Sussex Times -Tuesday December 14 1915 CHEERY LETTER FROM CORPORAL M ANSCOMBE. Writing to his parents at Cuckfield, Corporal M...

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Sep 24, 20223 min read

1915: Air raids - a fire engine needed?

Cuckfield Rural Parish Council and present difficulties. Several topical questions came up for discussion at the Meeting of the Cuckfield...

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Sep 23, 20223 min read

1914: Generous financial commitment for War 'Distress' fund

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 18 August 1914 CUCKFIELD AND THE WAR. A RELIEF FUND STARTED A GENEROUS RESPONSE. £280 RAISED IN ONE EVENING...

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Sep 11, 20222 min read

1928: War preparations in Cuckfield for 40,000 participants

Aberdeen Press and Journal - Saturday 01 September 1928 40,000 AT WAR. British Army Ready for Mimic Battle. (From a Special...

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Sep 2, 20221 min read

1942: Bottle tops and tree guards

Four hundred tree guards, each one six feet high and live feet in circumference was an unusual gift to a Ministry of Works scrap metal...

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Aug 24, 20226 min read

1915: A lecture on War Medals to soldiers in Cuckfield preparing to go to war

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 27 April 1915 WAR MEDALS. INTERESTING LECTURE AT CUCKFIELD. The men of the Post Office Rifles who are billeted...

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Jul 26, 20227 min read

1971: The man behind decoy airfields

Sir Douglas Claude Strathern Evill Buried in Cuckfield churchyard is a senior officer of the RAF who had an interesting life during...

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Jul 3, 20222 min read

1938: Them things is no good to me

Have Sussex people sleepy minds ? I ask the question because not a third of them seem to have properly awakened to the fact that they...

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Jun 25, 20224 min read

1936: Manoeuvres - temporary bridge

The pleasant war in the Sussex manoeuvres area, in which the combatants are being killed or wounded by word of mouth, went forward at a...

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Jun 16, 20222 min read

1939: Warmth rationed

Cuckfield Rural District Council, Burgess Hill Urban District Council Fuel and Lighting Order, 1939 In pursuance of paragraph 5a of the...

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Jun 8, 20222 min read

1938: Shelters for Cuckfield School to be dug

Air Raid Precautions Committee Mr German presided over a meeting of this Committee on November 7th. Shelters for school-children...

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May 18, 20223 min read

1940: A teenager's first hand experience of the Blitz

November 1940 For several years I thought I would like to join the Navy – an ambition fuelled by a school friend whose father had been...

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May 12, 20221 min read

1915: Chilling message from a Post Office Rifleman in France to Cuckfield friend

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

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May 4, 20222 min read

1915: Grim update from 'Somewhere in France'

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

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Apr 22, 20221 min read

1944: Award for Cuckfield flying hero

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...

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Apr 9, 20221 min read

1892 Easter: Undress and whistles required

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

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Mar 21, 20221 min read

1915: Local Teenager killed in torpedo sinking of HMS Formidable

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...

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Mar 20, 20222 min read

1943: Baby delivery diverted to Chownes Mead

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...

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Mar 18, 20223 min read

The man who named 'The Lord Woolton Pie'

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

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