The document above was issued to Jim Heath confirming that as a recruit, who attested for the North Staffordshire Regiment on 6th January 1940, he had been issued with a train ticket allowing him passage from Brighton to the North Staffs' Infantry Training Centre (I.T.C.) in Lichfield on Southern Railways.
A description of the recruit is given as 25 years and 3 months of age, 5' 6 3/4" in height of fair complexion with brown hair, blue eyes and dressed in civilian clothes. In addition he was armed with a 4s 6d ration allowance.
The document is also signed by Lieut. Col. E.J. Nixon.
Reference is made to the date of 15th January 1940 (possibly the date on which he had to be in Lichfield?).
Finally, EJCA-95-1 appears hand written on the document. The same alpha numeric number is also written on his sign up papers. A search for the meaning of the acronym EJCA has not provided any further detail. Can anyone shed any light on it's meaning in the context of a newly recruited soldier?
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