Football prospects for next winter were very briefly summed up by Alderman H. Arnold at the annual meeting of the shareholders of Luton Town Football and Athletic Co Ltd on Monday evening.

On Saturday, August 14th, 1915, the following Bed Regiment casualties were reported.

WOUNDED
Pte G. Partridge, 14253, 2nd Battalion.

Pte P. Small, 8065, 2nd Battalion.

Beds Regt casualties reported on Monday, August 16th, 1915.

DIED OF WOUNDS

Pte James Harry Bailey (23), 3/8151, 1st Battalion, June 21st, 1915 (Boulogne Eastern Cemetery).

Pte Jack Stanley Bunton, 15393, 1st Battalion, June 6th, 1915 (Steeple Bumpstead, St Mary, Church Cemetery).

Luton Volunteer Corps acted upon a suggestion of one of its section commanders and carried out an exercise in which all principal entrances to the town were placed under observation. The police authorities had previously been approached in the matter so that any difficulties were removed.

One of the most damning indictments the Kaiser and his Government will have to face when the war is over will be charge of inhumanity in connection with their treatment of prisoners of war - particularly the men of these islands, wrote the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph in its front page lead story.

Stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: August 21st, 1915.

There can be no doubt that the 1/5th Beds Regiment have arrived at their destination, for one casualty is announced in a message received on Wednesday by Mr Henry Chaundler, Clerk of Biggleswade Urban and Rural District Councils, who was officially informed by the Territorial Records Officer that his son, Second-Lieut P. R. Chaundler, had been wounded. No information was given as to the extent of his injuries.

The signature illustrated above in the middle - George Smith - was that of a man who was to become a notorious serial killer hanged on August 13th, 1915, for what was known as the "Brides in the bath" murder case heard at the Old Bailey between June 22nd and July 1st, 1915.

Gunner Alfred Firmin, son of Mr and Mrs A. W. Firmin, of 'Pendennis,' Dunstable Road, Luton, who is at the Front with the 3rd Battery of the Lincoln Artillery (1st North Midland Division), has written home a very interesting letter describing the latest tactics of the Germans in spraying vitriol into the trenches.

An opinion has gained credence that the life of the artilleryman is neither as exciting nor dangerous as that of the infantry. The large number of vivid stories from the trenches are probably responsible for this idea, but the following extracts from a letter written by Gunner-Signaller Fred Barrett, 85401, 114th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, proves conclusively that their life is not lacking adventure and thrilling ordeal.

On August 10th, 1915, the following Beds Regt casualties were reported.

KILLED

Pte George William Britton, 3/7611, 1st Battalion, July 16th, 1915 (Le Touret Memorial).

Cpl Joseph Fitzjohn, 4/7245, 2nd Battalion, July 10th, 1915 (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres).

Pte Frederick John Gilbert (21), 3/7006, 2nd Battalion, May 16th, 1915 (Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy).

WOUNDED AND MISSING

Pte Frederick John East, 3/6435, 1st Battalion (KIA November 7th, 1914 - Le Touret Memorial).

Stories from The Luton News: Thursday, August 19th, 1915.

We participate in the national mourning for the fate of the Royal Edward, the troopship which was torpedoed and went down in the Aegean Sea last Saturday with the loss of a thousand lives.

Stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: August 14th, 1915.

Major Orlebar, Commanding 3/5th Battalion, Beds Regt, is invited men who are now prepared to join the Army to do their bit to do their training in the pleasant surroundings of Windsor Park.

Stories from The Luton News: Thursday, August 12th, 1915.

Stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph, August 7th, 1915.

Official particulars have now been published of the circumstances under which Company Quartermaster-Sgt Arthur Andrews, the Lutonian whose home is at 15 Adelaide Street, won the clasp to his Distinguished Conduct Medal, which is equivalent, as was published at the time,to another medal.