A badly wounded soldier incapacitated from further active service was mourning the death on Friday, November 12th, 1915, of his little daughter.

Doris Clara Farr, one of two little children of Cpl Charles Farr, of 47 Newcombe Road, Luton, was found to be suffering from diphtheria and died the following day at the age of four-and-a-half years. Her funeral took place at the Church Cemetery the following Monday.

Cpl Farr was called up as a reservist to rejoin the 3rd Rifle Brigade on the outbreak of war. He was one of the first Luton soldiers to return home wounded. He was wounded so badly in one of his legs that, although he was discharged from hospital, he was incapacitated from further active service.

He was sent to join the 6th Reserve Battalion at Sheerness and was put on light duty, but in August 1915 his old employers, Messrs Hayward Tyler and Co, were enabled by the passing of the Munitions Act to get him transferred to their employment on munition work.

[Luton Reporter: Monday, November 22nd, 1915]