Harry Allen was living in Town Yard Barton, father Leonard Allen mother Agnes Mary Emily (Jones)..National Roll gives his service in Messopotamia
Harry enlisted on the 10th of December 1915, and was discharged on the 10th December 1919. He was entitled to the Victory and british war medals, plus the silver wound badge. Reference k/1093/1as23158
Charles Dillingham was a successful Luton Hat manufacturer, and self made man. He served as Luton Mayor from 1917 - 1918, and escorted King George V around Luton, on only his second day in office.
Henry Impey was born in 1865, and served as Mayor of Luton from 1918 - 1919. He had the dubious honour of being Mayor during the Peace Day Riots, and when people began to attack the town hall, he was smuggled out of Luton, never to return to live and work here, although he paid a few brief visits.
Following his death in Lincolnshire on April 17th, 1930, at the age of 65, his body was finally brought back to Luton for a funeral service at his beloved Mount Tabor Church in Castle Street, followed by burial at the General Cemetery in Rothesay Road.
Private Joseph Summerfield was the only son of George and Rose Summerfield of Sundon, and brother to two younger sisters, Lizzie and Ethel. His father was a Labourer at a Lime Works, and Joseph followed in his fathers footsteps and became a labourer at the Cement Works when he was 14.
Joseph joined the 7th Bedfordshire Regiment on the outbreak of war, and served 2 years in France, without any leave, before he was killed on the 17th June.
Private Frederick Goodman, was the third son of Herbert and Ann Goodman of Surrey Street Luton. Frederick was born in 1893 in Markyate where his father was an Asphalter (one who works with tar, probably working in laying road surfaces or sealing roofs).
Prior to enlisting in August 1916, Frederick worked as a labourer at the Diamond Foundry, alongside his two elder brothers Walter and Archie. He joined the Royal Sussex Regiment, and served until he was wounded on the 20th June 1917. He was taken to a casualty clearing station at Proven where he died soon after arrival.
Sgt Nelson Thomas Pike, was the fourth son of Joseph Peplar Pike and Agnes Pike of Someries Farm Luton. Nelson was born in 1889 in Hilperton Wiltshire, where his father was a farmer.
In 1911, Nelson was working as a Chauffeur for the family of Edward Welton, a Stockbroker who lived in St. Albans.
Nelson joined the A.S.C. as a driver, and was continually engaged in the transport of ammunition and supplies from the railheads to the front line depots, a risky occupation that was open to shellfire and the occasional explosion of ammunition under transit.
Private William Henry Brown, was the eldest son of William Henry and Lizzie-Ann Brown. He was born in 1891 in Stopsley, and worked a Warehouseman in Luton. He lived with his wife on Park Street West.
Aged 23 in 1911 he was a straw hat packer and living at No 2 Cross Street in Luton. He was living with 7 other people in this little side street off High Town Road, his 58 year old widowed mother, Georgeina, brother Harry 19, and aunt Maria who is unmarried at age 64 and is a straw hat machinist. Gustavus' married brother John, 25 who is a brickmaker, has bought his family to live here too, his wife Amy Thurza Gerelda, 25 and his daughters Winifred Nora, 4 and Edith Elizabeth aged 2.
Frederich Wilhelm Spriegel was born on the 24th Feb 1893 in Luton, Bedfordshire.
His parents were Frederich Wilhelm Spriegel (Snr) born 1868 in Wurtemburg Germany and Norah Louisa Caroline Fisburne born 1871 in Macclesfield, Cheshire.
SHEFFORD VICAR NEARLY ARRESTED AS SPY. SEPTEMBER 1914 LUTON NEWS
The Reverend Edward Dakin, Vicar of Shefford, formerly senior curate at Luton Parish Church, has returned from Germany, after nerve-racking experiences. Some of these he has described to his parishioners, who came in such numbers to hear it, that every inch in the church and porches was occupied.