Henry George Grundy left his business as a straw hat manufacturer in Buxton Road, Luton, at the outbreak of war and enlisted as a private in the Royal Garrison Artillery. A year later he had risen through the ranks to become a Second Lieutenant, and less than another year later he was mentioned in dispatches for conspicuous services in the field.

Digest of stories from The Luton News: Thursday, June 7th, 1917.

The bold and fearless manner in which one of the ships of the British Navy rammed and sank a German submarine in mid-ocean was described to the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph by naval gunner Able Seaman Bert Waller, son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Waller, of 105 Tennyson Road, Luton. He was on 12 days home leave while his ship was undergoing repairs.

He said: "It was about 12.15 pm when a submarine was sighted. It was reported by the look-out, and the ship's company went to action stations. The submarine was about 800 yards ahead and we were steaming about 32 knots.

Digest of stories from The Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: June 2nd, 1917.

Huge numbers of men died in the World War One trenches. But many who survived faced a future of life-changing physical problems. One such was Pte William Eli Bodsworth, of the Bedfordshire Regiment, whose mother lived at 32 Jubilee Street, Luton.He seemed resigned to what had happened but was determined to make the most of what he had.

Digest of stories from The Luton News: Thursday, May 31st, 1917.

Digest of stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: May 26th, 1917.

On May 25th, 1917, a new phase in German aerial warfare against Britain began. Increasingly vulnerable airships were being replaced for raids by fixed wing Gotha aircraft in Operation Turkenkreuz. The first involved 23 planes setting off to bomb London, but cloud over the capital meant secondary targets were chosen, notably Folkestone.

Digest of stories from The Luton News: Thursday, May 24th, 1917.

When the bells were summoning to worship on Sunday morning, the Luton strikers decided to resume work. It is a lamentable thing that there should have been a breach, but we are not particularly anxious to apportion blame or responsibility.

By May 1917, nearly three years of war had reduced the verdant fields of Flanders to a morass filled with shell holes. Three stories in The Luton News revealed that the shell holes could be a blessing for some and a death-trap for others.

The following extracts were contained in a letter written in a Birmingham hospital and sent home by Pte Sydney Allen, Essex Regiment, to his wife Florence at 34 John Street, Luton, telling the story of how he was wounded and revealing some of the hardships and sufferings for "the boys out there".

Digest of stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: May 19th, 1917.

A little change was the verdict of striking engineering workers after a meeting at the Luton football ground this morning. Yesterday there was no progress beyond the report that the committee responsible had deliberated farther and made more fruitless attempts to get hold of the Ministry of Munitions.

Yesterday and today the Press were again excluded, but yesterday delegates from London and the Midlands attended and expounded the position and the attempts at negotiation.

Digest of stories from The Luton News: Thursday, May 17th, 1917.