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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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John Albert Rapley

Private - Australian Imperial Force Regiment

Henry George Peers

Private - Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment

William Foggo

Gunner - Royal Field Artillery Regiment

William Feast

Private - Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment

Thomas John Read

Gunner - Royal Field Artillery Regiment

Albert Bracey

Gunner - Royal Field Artillery 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

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

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