Digest of stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: May 12th, 1917.

On April 29th, 1917, a meeting of members of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers was held at Luton Town Hall. It was a secret gathering, and rumours had been circulating ever since concerning what would happen next.

Digest of stories from The Luton News: Thursday, May 10th, 1917.

Writing on April 27th, 1917, to parents Alfred William and Mary Firmin, of 21 Dunstable Road, Luton, their eldest son, Gunner Alfred Firmin, serving with the Lincolnshire R.F.A. in France, described what he found when an abandoned German position was taken over.

Digest of stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: May 5th, 1917.

Ernest Simms [pictured], the Luton Town centre-forward, is, after all, the top scorer in the London Combination. This is a wonderful record considering that he has only played in 29 games.

The story of a wonderful escape on the battlefield was related in a letter home from Pte George James Bent, 30631, Lewis machine gun section, Bedfordshire Regiment, only son of George and Caroline George Bent, of 34 Albion Road, Luton, and husband of Mrs Laura Victoria Bent, of 37 Langley Road, Luton.

Digest of stories from The Luton News: Thursday, May 3rd, 1917.

The most conclusive evidence of any particular regiment's share in the honours of war is to be found in the casualty and the honours lists. Anyone consulting these records would at once concur with the view that the Bedfordshire Regiment has been as deeply concerned in the struggles which have taken place on the battlefields where British arms have appeared since August 1914 as any other contingent fighting under the British flag.

Digest of stories from The Luton News: Thursday, April 28th, 1917.

Twenty-three Luton borough policemen of military age were granted continued conditional exemption from Army service at the Luton Tribunal on Wednesday. Military Representative Lieut H. Gardner agreed to the exemptions but said the cases of some of the younger men would be reconsidered when new Chief Constable Mr Charles Griffin took up his duties.

Digest of stories from The Luton News: Thursday, April 26th, 1917.

A unique competition will take place on Saturday in connection with the fire brigades attached to the different Luton works.

Pte Reginald Bigg was a 22-year-old who had enlisted in the East Surrey Regiment on September 18th, 1915. He went to France on January 7th, 1916, and was wounded the following September at Thiepval on the Somme.

Young Lily Wildman in Luton was anticipating the happiest day of her life. Her wedding dress had been made, the cake procured, and wedding presents had arrived. All was ready for the next time her soldier fiance would be granted leave from active service in France.

Digest of stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: April 21st, 1917.

More than one Lutonian wishes he lived at Dunstable in these days. The fact that Messrs Readhead and Gray are supplying potatoes on an average of 4lb per family per week is a matter of some moment. We know families in Luton who have not had a potato in the house for weeks.

• Contemporary 1917 photograph of the holed Tyndareus published in the Press.

Lutonians will be interested to learn the experiences of their townspeople who were on the ill-fated transport Tyndareus which struck a mine off the coast of Africa a few weeks ago.

Digest of stories from The Luton News: Thursday, April 19th, 1917.

• The Dawson Brothers - left to right, Sydney, Gilbert and Cecil.

The work of our Navy is so apt to be forgotten amid the stories of dauntless heroism of soldiers in the trenches, but Mr and Mrs Dawson, of 30 Lea Road, Luton, may indeed be proud of the fact that they have three sons serving in the Navy.