From the Luton News dated 25th May 1916.  Private Frederick Gordon Smart of Harcourt Street Luton has just been wounded after serving for nine months with the Bedfords in France.  He received a gunshot in the right arm.

Frederick was the son of Frederick and Elizabeth Smart.  He had three sisters and four brothers - with the youngest brother, Douglas, also serving with the Bedford Regiment.  They both survived the War with Frederick taking up his pre-war job as a warehouseman and marrying in 1924