October 22, 1914 Luton News
The families of two men in Dunstable and Luton were told their loved ones were missing after the sinking of HMS Hawke by a German submarine in the North Sea on October 15.
John Jones aged 26 was a former Dunstable Grammar School pupil, and John Silvester of St Saviour’s Crescent, Luton, a keen musician, played the organ at a church in Flamstead.
A total of 524 officers and men died in the sinking.
Alien enemies above a certain age were being rounded up with several being detained at Luton Police station.
It is understood they will later be send to concentration camps.