Another Family Tragedy

Jack Weedon (left) and George Weedon (right) [from Luton News 19.11.1914]

Sunday 15th November 1914: The Weedon family of Wimborne Road, who suffered the loss of two of their sons last month, have just received the news that their twenty year old son Jack has been killed in France. The official notification stated that he died at 8.30am on 27th October from a gunshot wound to the head. Jack joined the 1st Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment over three years ago and was among the first to be sent to the Front. Like his brother he had been a pupil at Chapel Street and Waller Street schools; between leaving school and enlisting in the army he had worked for Messrs Rogers and Ashby in Dunstable Road. A third brother, George, is also serving his country as a sailor on H.M.S.Powerful.

Source: Luton News 19th November 1914