The first public sitting of the local Tribunal for the Luton Rural District area too place on Friday morning [February 25, 1916]. Several of the appeals naturally concerned the farming industry.

One appeal had reference to two two sons of a farmer who already had one son at the Front and was himself under the doctor's hands as a result of overwork and anxiety, brought on by the labour difficulties caused by the departure of hands on military service.

Stories from The Luton News: Thursday, February 24th, 1916.

The final edition of the Bedfordshire Advertiser, launched in 1855 as The Luton Times. The first front page of The Luton Times is reproduced below, carrying a report of the Siege of Sebastopol during the Crimean War.

Forty-eight appeals were dealt with by the local tribunal for the borough of Luton yesterday [February 23rd, 1916]. The members sat, with a short interval for tea, from 2.30 till after eight o'clock.

In several cases the appeal was by a man who was the only man left in a straw hat factory. Time after time the man stated that if he was called up the business must be closed, with loss of money and hardship for relatives solely dependent on the business.

Stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: February 19th, 1916.

The attitude of the Luton Education Committee to child labour was demonstrated this morning at the Borough Police Court, when Dorothy Linger, manageress of a Luton penny bazaar, was summoned for employing a child under the age of 14 years who had not obtained a proficiency certificate.

With the exception of the unfortunate passengers, no one saw more of the Thursday, December 28th, 1916, tram crash than Mr H. Hands, of Winson Green, Birmingham, who was staying for a little holiday with his brother-in-law and sister, Mr and Mrs Muir, of 94 Highbury Road, Luton. He rendered yeoman service to the victims.

Some remarkable facts were revealed in the story of injured passenger Miss Kate Brandham, of 390 Hitchin Road, following the tram crash on Thursday, December 28th, 1916.

Air raid precautions for Dunstable set out on a February 1916 poster.

Stories from The Luton News: February 17th, 1916.

Stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: February 12th, 1916.

Cpl Alfred Alexander Burt, 1665, 1st Herts Regiment and son of Luton railwayman Tommy Burt, revealed to reporters how he won the Victoria Cross on September 27th, 1915. He had got his first home leave on Wednesday and arrived home in Hertford unexpectedly.

Stories from The Luton News: Thursday, February 10th, 1916.

Tribunals have this week been appointed to deal with the appeals of men brought in under the Military Service Act 1916. The Luton Town Council, as the registration authority for the borough, appointed a Tribunal for the borough on Tuesday evening, at a special meeting convened for that purpose.

Stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: February 5th, 1916.

One of the most amazing naval incidents in this war is the capture of the Elder-Dempster liner, the SS Appam, on January 15th off the north coast of Africa, and its trip across the Atlantic in charge of a German prize crew.

A medical officer who was present at the evacuation of Gallipoli writes:

"I believe I have told you of the great blizzard and frost at Suvla, and here on the fourth and fifth days dozens of men came in frozen solid to the knees, many with gangrene far advanced. A lot of them were mere boys, but they refused to leave the trenches till reinforcements poured in. Even the sick in hospital rose up and took their rifles and went up to hold the line. It was truly magnificent.

Harry Edward Stanton was born in Luton in late 1894, the son of farrier and blacksmith William Asplin Stanton (died May 1st, 1909) and his wife Kate (nee Craddock). He was a Quaker with strong conscientious objections to doing military service in World War One, although he had a brother and friends serving in the Army.

Stories from The Luton News: Thursday, February 3rd, 1916.

Zeppelin raids over various parts of the country on Monday night were cited at the meeting of the Luton Town Council on Tuesday as proof of the necessity of keeping the lighting of the town to the lowest possible limits.

When Pte Frederick John William Lemmon arrived home in Luton in early 1916 he had served in the 1/5th Bedfordshire Regiment since attesting the previous April and seen action in Gallipoli, where he was seriously wounded.