The saying that truth is stranger than fiction is amply borne out by a very remarkable coincidence, said The Luton News in the telling of the story of a photo found on the battlefield of a Luton baby.

Mrs F. W. Puddephatt, of Frederic Street, employs a Mrs Fensome, of 1 Reginald Street, and on the outbreak of war Mr Fensome enlisted in the East Anglian RE and went to the Front.

Shortly afterwards Cpl Robinson, of the Staffords, was billeted at Mrs Puddephatt's house, and he became attached to her little child. Mrs Puddephatt had taken a photograph of the baby, and Cpl Robinson took one with him when his Regiment went to the Front.

Last week, Mr Fensome wrote home and enclosed a photograph which he said he had picked up on the battlefield. He wrote on it the words, "What a nice little child," and sent it as a memento of the battlefield.

As soon as Mrs Fensome receive the photograph she saw it was the same one that Cpl Robinson took. Mr Fensome did not know the corporal, and the remarkable fact is that the photograph should have got straight into his hands, when one considers the thousands of soldiers there are in the firing line.

Mrs Puddephatt last week had a letter from Cpl Robinson saying that he still had the photograph. He must have been unaware of his loss. Mrs Puddephatt has written to him to explain the wonderful occurrence.

Elsewhere in the newspaper there was the story of the finding of yet another photograph on the battlefield.

The assistance of Luton News readers was sought in finding the owner of four photos picked up at Hill 60 by Sgt F. Usher, of the 1st Devons. They were in an envelope which also contained one of the cards which accompanied Lady Wernher's Christmas gifts to the men of the Bedfordshire Regiment, but none of the photographs bears an inscription. The photographs - one of which is reproduced (right) - were sent on to Lady Wernher.

[The Luton News, July 1st, 1915]