This weeks Bank Holiday gave the family an opportunity to travel to my home town of Burgess Hill in West Sussex for a bit of sea air in Brig...

The newspaper cutting above comes from The Sentinel which was then, as now, the daily evening paper for the Stoke-On-Trent area. Thi...

The document above was issued to Jim Heath confirming that as a recruit, who attested for the North Staffordshire Regiment on 6th January...

On 6th January 1940, Jim Heath entered the Brighton Army Recruiting Office in Brighton with the intention to sign up for service with the...

15th March 1939 Czechoslovakia surrenders after Adolf Hitler annexes the country into the Third Reich. Although the Czechs had warmly ...

By virtue of the role he played in both the UK and Europe whilst in uniform he was awarded four medals. The Defence Medal Awar...

I have added a page to the site (see the right side bar) on which I have detailed the sources that I have consulted in preparing this site. ...