Ernest Simms was a professional footballer with Luton Town FC when he enlisted in the Footballers Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment at Kingsway, London on 16th December 1914 with his Luton team mates Wileman, Frith, Roe, Dunn and Wilson.

John Dunn was a professional footballer at Luton Town FC when he enlisted in the Footballers' Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment at Kingsway, London on 16th December 1914 with his Luton team mates Wileman, Simms, Frith, Roe and Wilson.

In doing so he was following the example set by his team mates Roberts and Lindley who had signed up the day before. Lindley and Dunn shared lodgings at a house called Ruthaven in Shaftesbury Road, Luton. Dunn continued to be available to play for Luton in the 1914-15 season whilst undergoing military training.

Edgar Rowland Abbott was born in 1889 to Rowland & Lizzie Louise.

In 1915 he enlisted into the Royal Engineers, but after only serving 9 months, he was discharged due to a discrepancy in his age.

He later joined the RAF but was KIA on 5th November 1918.

Lance Corporal Rowland Abbott served in 1/5th Btn of the Bedfordshire Regiment.

Before the outbreak of war the father of 6 was a straw hat blocker & was living with his wife Lizzie Louise and children at 27 May Street.

He was fighting in Gallipoli when he was wounded. He later died of his wounds on 21st August 1915. His final resting place is unknown, but he is remembered on the Helles Memorial panel 54 & 218

Arthur Roe was a professional footballer for Luton Town who signed for the club at the start of  the 1914-15 season. He enlisted in the Footballers' Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment at Kingsway on 16th December 1914 with his Luton team mates Simms, Wileman, Frith, Dunn and Wilson.

He survived the war and returned to play for Luton Town in the 1919-20 season.

Lieut Harold Victor Ramsey (registered at birth as Harry Victor) was born in 1880 in Romford, Essex.

In 1911 he is living with his brother George William in Endsleigh High St, Wanstead, and both are working in the London Stock Exchange.

He died of pneumonia at Wardown Military Hospital on August 5th, 1918, at the age of 38. He was unmarried.

Harry Ramsey had fought in the South African (Boer) War. Attached to the Honourable Artillery Company, he was subsequently gazetted to the Royal Field Artillery.

Pte. Albert Kempton, whose wife lives at 1, Chobham Street, says he was buried alive in a big house that was knocked down by a " Jack Johnson " shell, and that he knew no more until he found himself in hospital.

Pte. Harold C. Abbott, 96, Oak Road, was killed in action on April 17th.  He was 19 years of age, and was in the employ of Mr.A. Bunnage, a straw hat manufacturer in Church Street, up to October, 1913, when he joined the !st Bedfords, and served in Ireland up to the outbreak of war.

Jock Jarvie was a professional footballer for Luton Town FC in the 1912-13 and 1913-14 seasons. At the end of the 1914 season he returned to his hometown of Glasgow. He enlisted and was killed in action in January 1916, aged 27.

Bertie was the 5th son of Joseph Walter & Julia Whittemore. He was born in 1889 in Luton.

He joined the Rifle Brigade in 1907 serving in India & Egypt. He was coming to the end of his 8 years of service when war brokeout.

He died of wounds received in France & Flanders in May 1915.

Charles Dillingham was a successful Luton Hat manufacturer, and self made man. He served as Luton Mayor from 1917 - 1918, and escorted King George V around Luton, on only his second day in office.

Henry Impey was born in 1865, and served as Mayor of Luton from 1918 - 1919. He had the dubious honour of being Mayor during the Peace Day Riots, and when people began to attack the town hall, he was smuggled out of Luton, never to return to live and work here, although he paid a few brief visits.

Following his death in Lincolnshire on April 17th, 1930, at the age of 65, his body was finally brought back to Luton for a funeral service at his beloved Mount Tabor Church in Castle Street, followed by burial at the General Cemetery in Rothesay Road.

John Henry Staddon was born in 1860, and served as Luton Mayor from 1915 - 1916 and again from 1916 - 1917.

He later went on to serve as High Sheriff of Bedfordshire from 1938 to 1939.

Walter Primett was born in 1863, and served as the Mayor of Luton from 1914 - 1915, during the outbreak of war.

He is recorded as running a grocery store on Langley Road in 1898.

Arthur Wileman was a professional footballer at Luton Town FC when he enlisted in the Footballers' Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment at Kingsway on 16th December 1914 with his Luton team mates Simms, Frith, Roe, Dunn and Wilson.

In doing so he was following the example set by his team mates Roberts and Lindley who had signed up the day before. Wileman was the top-scorer in the promotion winning team of 1913-14 and continued to play for Luton in the 1914-15 season whilst training with his battalion.