Digest of stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: March 17th, 1917.

Wednesday evening's Borough Tribunal sitting was relieved in an astonishing way. For the first time that authority was requested to permit the withdrawal of an exemption certificate by a conscientious objector whose "eyes had been opened to the light".

Digest of stories from the Luton News: Thursday, March 15th, 1917.

Digest of stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: March 10th, 1917.

The Luton Tribunal deadlock is over and at a special meeting on Friday night the whole business more or less satisfactorily cleared up.

There was still an air of tension when Luton Borough Tribunal reconvened at the Town Hall on Friday, March 9th, 1917, after a two-week break in which to seek clarification of any revised orders given to Military Representatives of which they had not been informed.

• The holed Tyndareus on which Luton soldier Victor Whitcher was sailing east.

On February 6th, 1917, Admiralty transport ship Tyndareus struck a mine laid by a German raider off Cape Agulhas, South Africa. On board was Luton hairdresser Pte Victor Whitcher, serving with a battalion of the Middlesex Regiment.

Digest of stories from The Luton News: Thursday, March 8th, 1917.

Bdr Frederick Barrett (Royal Field Artillery), of 22 Jubilee Street, Luton, has been awarded a decoration by the Russian Government. He is now home on leave after a long and varied experience of the war, in the course of which he has had quite his share of fighting.

Digest of stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: March 3rd, 1917.

• Munitions workers at George Kent's during World War One.

The Luton No 2 branch of the National Federation of Women Workers launched out with their first public venture in the form of a concert and dance at the Winter Assembly Hall on Friday evening [March 2nd, 1917].

Councillor W. J.Primett, Deputy Mayor of Luton, has received an interesting letter from Seaman G. D. Pickering* (son of Mr George Pickering, of 19 Dallow Road), who for many years was cornet player in the Luton No 1 Salvation Army Band. He joined the Navy just before Christmas and is now stationed at Victoria, Vancouver Island, Canada. He writes:

Digest of stories from The Luton News: Thursday, March 1st, 1917.

In a letter to his parents, Cpl Edward Grice, R.A.M.C., son of the Midland Stationmaster at Luton and formerly a member of the Luton News staff, writes from France on February 6th:

"We are now staying at a chateau. It must have been a glorious place in peace time. No doubt it was the home of some prosperous French gentleman, but the guns have made a mess of it and everything is wrecked.

Digest of stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: February 24th, 1917.

Information has been received by Lady Wernher that a South Wales miner made a brave attempt to save the life of her youngest son, Lieut Alexander Pigott Wernher, of the Welsh Guards, on the battlefield.