The following Beds Regiment casualty lists were issued on June 15th, with several men reported missing.

DIED OF WOUNDS

Pte Harry Palmer (24), 9381, 1st (2nd?) Battalion, May 16th, 1915 (Bethune Town Cemetery).

WOUNDED

Pte A. Bradshaw, 9335, 1st Battalion.

Pte A. Brown, 7945, 1st Battalion.

Pte T. R. Harvey, 13211, 1st Battalion.

SUFFERING FROM GAS POISONING

Sgt F. Courtnell, 15018, Ist Battalion.

The arrival of Woolworths in Luton in 1915 went virtually unheralded, not even an advert appeared for the opening of the bazaar-style store at 51 George Street on September 4th of that year.

The first intimation of the arrival of F. W. Woolworth had come in the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph on June 19th, 1915. But the company name was not mentioned.

The Luton contribution to the East Anglian Royal Engineers now amounts to three complete field companies. The third line has just been completed, the following men have enlisted to form it.

SAPPERS

A:   Alvey, Ambridge, Andrews, W. T. Ashby, W. Astling.

B:   A. W. Barford, W. Barford, Barton, E. Bates, O. S. Bent, T. Bird, Blunt, W. J. Bowley, S. Broughall, F. Buss, Butt.

C:   H. Cain, S. Cain, H. Chalkley, A. G. Cogswell, Corley, A. A. Crick, Crowe, Croxford.

Stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph, June 12th, 1915.

A glimpse into what was being done for Belgian refugees and what the refugees were doing for themselves came via the Herts Advertiser, a sister paper of The Luton News.

Beds Regiment casualty lists issued June 11th, 1915 (subsequent information in brackets from Commonwealth War Graves Commission).

MISSING

Capt A. D. Gaye, attached Royal Flying Corps.

KILLED

Pte George Thompson, 3/6991, 1st Battalion, April 21st, 1915 (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres).

WOUNDED

Pte C. Atterbury, 12783.

Pte J. Baldwin, 14077.

Pte A. H. Bosworth, 14065.

Pte F. Cox, 13185.

Pte W. Franklin, 18607.

Stories from The Luton News, June 10th, 1915

The largest crowd ever known to have gathered in George Street turned out to welcome the 1/5th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment as they arrived in Luton towards the end of a 60-mile three-day march around the county.

Beds Regiment casualty lists issued June 9th, 1915.

WOUNDED

Pte P. Devereaux, 14894, 1st Battalion.

Pte S. Hinton, 14257, 1st Battalion.

Pte A. Passfield, 13289, 1st Battalion.

Pte C. Savage, 6754, 1st Battalion.

Pte E. Small, 8403, 1st Battalion.

Pte C. Waldock, 6936, 1st Battalion.

Pte C. Whiting, 10120, 1st Battalion.

SUFFERING FROM GAS POISONING

Bdsman R. Billingham, 9404, 1st Battalion.

Pte A. Dillingham, 18421, 1st Battalion.

The names of Skefko men serving with the colours, as at June 1915.

GENERAL OFFICE

Sgt H. E. Elsdon, Royal Engineers

Cpl F. W. Taylor, Royal Engineers

Pte M. R. Crabb, Royal Engineers

Cpl J. E. Glibbery, Beds Yeomanry

Pte P. R. Josey, Beds Yeomanry

Pte R. E. V. Haynes, Beds Yeomanry

Beds Regiment casualty lists published on Monday, June 7th, 1915 (subsequent information in brackets from the Commonwealth War Graves website).

KILLED

Capt Harold Edwards Huntriss (24), 2nd Battalion, May 17th, 1915 (Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy).

Pte Thomas Beard, 3/7791, 2nd Battalion, May 12th, 1915 (Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy).

Stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph, June 5th, 1915.

The 1/5th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment will be marching up to the Luton Town Hall at 7 pm tonight, and will be given a civic welcome.

Pte William Medlock, 8178, a reservist called up in August 1914, was the first Luton man to be awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for gallant conduct, earned with the 1st Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment at Neuve Chapelle on October 29th, 1914.

The official record said he and another unnamed man crawled from the trenches while under heavy fire, set fire to a farmhouse occupied by about 50 Germans who were forced to leave, and enabled our troops to take possession of an important tactical position.

Bedfordshire Regiment casualty lists issued on Friday, June 4th, 1915. It appears the 1st Battalion have suffered again through the use of poisonous gases by the Germans. (Subsequent information in brackets from Commonwealth War Graves Commission website).

DIED OF GAS POISONING

Pte Sidney Henry Grasemann, 14518, 1st Battalion, May 5th, 1915 (Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord).

SUFFERING FROM GAS POISONING

Stories from The Luton News, June 3rd, 1915.

The 1/5th Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment have never been in Luton as a complete battalion, and the march through the county, commencing today, should therefore arouse the enthusiasm of local people.

Many photographs from the Great War do not seem to have been published at the time. However, some, such as these below, did appear to mark anniversaries, such as the tenth and 25th anniversaries of the outbreak of war. Ironically, the latter were printed just a month before World War Two broke out.