L-Cpl George Bavister, M2/049276, Army Service Corps (Mechanical Transport), wrote to his wife at 7 Crescent Road, Luton, that he had been awarded the Italian Croce di Guerre (Cross of War) for work done during the last big Italian offensive of the war.

An assistant secretary of the Luton Swimming Club and a keen polo player, he was a builder who joined up early at the war and served in France before being drafted to Italy in November 1917. On June 7th, 1917, he had married George Powdrill's daughter Alice at the Union Chapel.

[The Luton News: Thursday, December 19th, 1918]