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Local Heroes - Your streets were their streets Local Heroes - Your streets were their streets

The names of 197 local men who lost their lives in World War I are
inscribed on the bells of the Memorial Community Church in Plaistow. They are our local heroes

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Bells:

J Siddon

Private - Regiment Unknown

C Wood

Private - Regiment Unknown

B W Wash

Private - Regiment Unknown

Horace Allan Wainwright

Private - Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment

J T Sawyers

Private - Regiment Unknown

John Albert Rapley

Private - Australian Imperial Force Regiment

A Radford

Private - Regiment Unknown

E Pender

Private - Regiment Unknown

Henry George Peers

Private - Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment

T Ousten

Private - Regiment Unknown

J Naules

Private - Regiment Unknown

J Morrison

Private - Regiment Unknown

J Marrison

Sergeant - The King's (Liverpool Regiment

J Lichen

Private - Regiment Unknown

F Leggett

Private - Regiment Unknown

W Jestice

Private - Regiment Unknown

Charles William Hughes

Company Sergeant Major - North Staffordshire Regiment

F Horrigen

Private - Regiment Unknown

G Glenistein

Lance Corporal - Regiment Unknown

N Swan

Corporal - Regiment Unknown

W Shelton

Corporal - Regiment Unknown

J Pracey

Corporal - Regiment Unknown

E Surridge

Sergeant - Regiment Unknown

James Rennie

Sergeant - Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

F J Janes

Serjeant - Gloucestershire Regiment

H Brown

Corporal - Regiment Unknown

Thomas Hutchin

Sergeant - Bedford Regiment

E Fuller

Sergeant - Regiment Unknown

William Foggo

Gunner - Royal Field Artillery Regiment

William Feast

Private - Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment

Joshua Fardon

Lance Corporal - Royal West Kent Regiment

P L Ellison

Private - Regiment Unknown

H Dealey

Private - Regiment Unknown

E Davis

Private - Regiment Unknown

A J Edmunds

Rank Unknown - Regiment Unknown

J MacDonald

Driver - Army Service Corps Regiment

G H Stride

Gunner - Royal Field Artillery Regiment

Thomas John Read

Gunner - Royal Field Artillery Regiment

A E Celtis

Private - Regiment Unknown

T Clark

Private - Regiment Unknown

G A Hall

Gunner - Regiment Unknown

T H Hall

Gunner - Regiment Unknown

Albert Bracey

Gunner - Royal Field Artillery Regiment

W Bewick

Private - Northumberland Fusiliers Regiment

W Baker

Rank Unknown - Regiment Unknown

J Anderson

Private - Regiment Unknown

T Powell

Second Lieutenant - Regiment Unknown

William Davis

Second Lieutenant - Essex Regiment

George Edward Church

Seaman - Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Regiment

Charles Bull

Able Seaman - Royal Navy Regiment

William Holbrook

Petty Officer - Royal Navy Regiment

Frank Charles Surridge

Able Seaman - Royal Naval Division Regiment

George Skinner

Stoker First Class - Royal Navy Regiment

Frederick Mortimer

Leading Stoker - Royal Navy Regiment

E S Hodges

Ship's Steward Assistant - Royal Navy Regiment

E B Edwards

Able Seaman - Royal Naval Division Regiment

George Stanley Collins

Leading Seaman - Royal Navy Regiment

L M Edmunds

Private - Regiment Unknown

Hugh Cecil Marnham

Second Lieutenant (pilot) - Royal Flying Corps Regiment

Percival Henry Edmondson

Lieutenant - Royal Garrison Artillery Regiment

Cyril Arthur Edmondson

Lieutenenant - Royal Naval Division Regiment

George Victor Betteridge

Officer's Steward 2nd Class - Royal Navy Regiment

Maurice Collins

Private - Royal Fusiliers Regiment

Frank Edward Jarvey

Rifleman - Rifle Brigade Regiment

Joseph V Chilton

Lance Corporal - Dorset Regiment

Albert Bracey

Gunner - Royal Field Artillery Regiment

James Robert Laws

Private - Durham Light Infantry Regiment

Arthur Ince

Private - South Wales Borderers Regiment

Arthur Cornelius Cole

Lance Corporal - Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment

Herbert James Gilbert

2nd Lieutenant - Rifle Brigade Regiment

Other heroes

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