Leighton Buzzard Station
c.1915 [Z1306/74/1/4]
Tuesday
23rd April 1918: A Linslade woman heard yesterday that her
husband had been buried alive inside a dug-out and had been reported as a
casualty. Very shortly afterwards a neighbour arrived with a note from the
soldier husband tied to a spoon; this had been dropped from a hospital train
and found by a railway platelayer who was a near neighbour. Although he did not
know his destination, realising that the train on which he was travelling would
pass through Leighton Buzzard station the soldier had taken this unorthodox
opportunity to send news to his wife.
Source:
Leighton Buzzard Observer 23rd April 1918
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