On-going friction between Luton Borough Tribunal and the military authorities was continuing with Tribunal complaints about the number of appeals against its decisions and the quality and reliability of medical examinations at Bedford.

On Monday, August 20th, 1917, Tribunal member Alderman H. O. Arnold wanted to know the number of appeals there had been by the Military Representative (Lieut H. Gardner) in the past month against decisions of the Tribunal, whether against temporary or conditional exemption.

The high praise bestowed on Lieut-Col Edgar Brighten (pictured) and his 1/5th Bedfords Yellow Devils in the successful raid on Umbrella Hill in Palestine was reflected in an article in the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph on August 18th, 1917. The article read:

The County Territorial Battalion have recently once more distinguished themselves - and at the same time inflicted a heavy blow on the enemy.

Digest of stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: August 18th, 1917.

• Chaul End halt, provided for munition workers who were offered rail concessions.

This morning at the Luton Borough Court, the story was told of the method by which Chaul End workpeople defrauded the Great Northern Railway Company.

Sapper Hemmans (Signals, Royal Engineers) described himself as a "Luton lad and a constant reader of The Luton News," when he wrote to the newspaper about a lucky escape on the battlefield for himself and four comrades on July 24th, 1917.

He wrote: "I thought I would let you know of a little incident which occurred with me and, no doubt, it will interest some of he boys in the town. A party of five of us were out, just behind the lines, gathering in wire cables on Monday, July 24th.

Digest of stories from The Luton News: Thursday, August 16th, 1917.

Bakers faced an impossible task in trying to comply with foods control regulations which stipulated that loaves of bread should weigh an exact number of pounds when sold, magistrates at Luton Divisional Police Court on Monday were told.

Digest of stories from The Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: August 11, 1917.

• Munitions girls working at George Kent's, 1916

A talk to other employees on what her work meant to her, given by a munitions girls with the initials 'J. M. B.,' was reproduced in The Luton News on August 9th, 1917. It read:

Digest of stories from The Luton News: Thursday, August 9th, 1917.

Consternation was caused at the Luton Corporation Swimming Baths on Saturday afternoon by the sudden death of a youth in the baths.

Another red-letter day in the career of the Biscot 'boys' was the opening of the extension to the Princess Victoria Y.M.C.A. Hut on Tuesday evening [August 7th, 1917]. A merry crowd of khaki boys filled the hut to its utmost capacity.

Digest of stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: August 4th, 1917.

The Ministry of Munitions announce advances in the wages of all women and girls employed in munitions work in controlled establishments and in uncontrolled establishments to which orders of the Ministry negotiating women's wages have already been applied.

• Territorials off to war in August 1914.

The fourth of August has come round for a fourth time as a day of war and, although locally it has not been recognised publicly to any great extent, this beginning of the fourth year of strife is an opportune time to glance back and sum up something of the part the town has played since was was declared.

Digest of stories from The Luton News: Thursday, August 2nd, 1917.

There are unmistakable indications that the 1/5th Bedfordshire Regiment have been in action again, and that they have not escaped scatheless. For some days we have known that there had been "something on," and we have received the names of two or three who have fallen.

On-going research into details of the 1,284 men commemorated on the Luton Roll of Honour has raised a couple of question marks so far. It would appear that one man is commemorated twice and two men are represented as one person.

The names Pte Frederick John East and Pte Frederick Ford seem to relate to the same man as they have the same regimental details. East was the surname with which the man's birth was registered and he served, while Ford is a later married surname of his mother.