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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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Place of death:

Horace Allan Wainwright

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

John Albert Rapley

Private - Australian Imperial Force Regiment

Henry George Peers

Private - Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment

J Marrison

Sergeant - The King's (Liverpool Regiment

Charles William Hughes

Company Sergeant Major - North Staffordshire Regiment

F J Janes

Serjeant - Gloucestershire Regiment

William Foggo

Gunner - Royal Field Artillery Regiment

William Feast

Private - Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment

Joshua Fardon

Lance Corporal - Royal West Kent Regiment

J MacDonald

Driver - Army Service Corps Regiment

G H Stride

Gunner - Royal Field Artillery Regiment

Thomas John Read

Gunner - Royal Field Artillery Regiment

Albert Bracey

Gunner - Royal Field Artillery Regiment

W Bewick

Private - Northumberland Fusiliers Regiment

George Edward Church

Seaman - Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Regiment

Charles Bull

Able Seaman - Royal Navy Regiment

William Holbrook

Petty Officer - Royal Navy Regiment

George Skinner

Stoker First Class - Royal Navy Regiment

Frederick Mortimer

Leading Stoker - Royal Navy Regiment

George Stanley Collins

Leading Seaman - Royal Navy Regiment

Hugh Cecil Marnham

Second Lieutenant (pilot) - Royal Flying Corps Regiment

Maurice Collins

Private - Royal Fusiliers 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

Other heroes

Place of death