Mr George Tuffnell, of Stopsley, received news of his son Horace Tuffnell, who was a trooper in the 8th Hussars in India when the war broke out and had been at the front since. Horace wrote that he had been wounded and was in an Egyptian hospital.

He had been awarded the Military Medal for gallant work in Palestine. For some time he had been in the Gloucester Hussars, attached to the 13th Cavalry.

[The Luton News: Thursday, November 28th, 1918]