Stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: January 29th, 1916.

A supplement to last night's London Gazette contained the names of officers and men whom General Sir Ian Hamilton desired to bring to notice in connection with the operations in the Dardanelles.

Hubbard Dye Works, Regent Street, Luton

Stories from The Luton News: Thursday, January 27th, 1916.

Luton has accepted responsibility to provide three inter-communicating YMCA huts on Folkestone Leas for the convenience and comfort of some of our Australian and Canadian brothers-in-arms. As the result of an appeal by Mayor Alderman J. H. Staddon, the greater part of the money is already to hand or promised.

Cpl Alfred Alexander Burt, the son of a long-serving Luton railwayman, won the Victoria Cross for bravery at Cuinchy after pulling the fuse out of a live bomb and throwing it over the parapet to save several lives. He had at first been recommended for the Distinguished Conduct Medal, but on Sunday, January 23rd, 1916, it was announced he would instead be awarded the VC.

The Luton Trades and Labour Council are sending their President, Mr W. J. Mair, of the Central Ironworkers' Society, as a delegate to the important conference of the Labour Party, which opens at Bristol on Wednesday. He was to give there a vote which, on a card vote, will represent a thousand Luton trades unionists in favour of a resolution declaring opposition to any form of compulsory service for war purposes.

Stories from The Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: January 22nd, 1916.

Mr Sidney C. Fensome, of 21 Granville Road, Luton, has had a very interesting letter from his brother, Sapper Arthur Fensome, who is with the 1/2nd Field Company of the East Anglian Royal Engineers. He writes:

"I received your parcel and letter safely yesterday. In fact, all my correspondence for the past two months has arrived in bulk. We have had cartloads every day for our division. They have been hanging about different ports as out division has had three changes of camp since December 4th, and a lot of them have been spoiled in consequence.

Servicemen at the Front taunting conscientious objectors at a mock trial in 1916

Stories from The Luton News: Thursday, January 20th, 1916.

The increased efficiency of the Bute Hospital and the high place it now holds in the opinion and esteem of all sections of the townspeople was the cause of gratification at the quarterly meeting of the Committee of Management held at the hospital on Monday evening.

Although somewhat belated as a description of the work of the 5th Beds Regiment in Gallipoli, the following extracts taken from a letter written by one of our wounded Terriers are well worth reproduction as showing the hardihood and the endurance, the cheerful spirits and invincible equanimity of the heroes of the Dardanelles.

The letter was written by Pte James Ward to his brother Tom, who sent it on to the soldier's wife. Mrs Ward resides at Mill View, Letchworth Road, Limbury, and in peaceable times her husband was a well-sinker.

The Bedfordshire Territorial Units who took part in the recent successful evacuation of the Suvla Bay region of the Gallipoli Peninsular have now settled down in their new quarters which, for military reasons, may not at present be specifically defined, but which it may be said at once are more conducive to comfort and health if less exciting than those they had on the Peninsular.

"I shall stand on top of the parapet tonight and smoke the old year out and the New Year in for your happiness, and the extermination of those blanks* that have caused all our misery." So runs the New Year message sent to Mr and Mrs F. Gardner, of 5 Holly Walk, Luton, by their son Cpl Jack Gardner, who left the employ of the Vauxhall Motors to join the 6th Bedfords.

Stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: January 15th, 1916.

Among a long list of names of those decorated for service in the field was that of Gunner Bert Jarvis, of the 1/1st North Midland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, who had been awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. He was the son of Great Northern Railway foreman Henry Jarvis, of 250 High Town Road, Luton.

Stories from the Luton News: Thursday, January 13th, 1916.

Those interested in the Luton Town Football Club will regret to hear the news that Pte John 'Jock' Jarvie, 11278, of the 2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, is posted as missing.