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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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Awards: British War Medal & Victory Medal:

George Elkington Older

Rifleman - KRRC Regiment
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James Henry Holloway

Rifleman - Rifle Brigade Regiment
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William George Hollock

Private - Royal Fusiliers Regiment
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Walter Henry Hewitt

Rifleman - KRRC Regiment
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Richard Harvey

Rifleman - Rifle Brigade Regiment
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Thomas George Laws

Lance Corporal - KRRC Regiment
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Albert Victor Prentice

Corporal - KRRC Regiment
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James Bloomfield Morris

Corporal - Rifle Brigade Regiment
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CharlesThomas Kiff

Rifleman - Rifle Brigade Regiment
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Charles Fisher

Rifleman - Rifle Brigade Regiment
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Andrew Harry Earle

Rifleman - KRRC Regiment
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Albert Percy Good

Rifleman - Rifle Brigade Regiment
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Albert Edward Acton

Gunner - Royal Field Artillery Regiment
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Frederick George Peters

Sergeant - Rifle Brigade Regiment
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Albert Edwin Cornwall Millidge

Rifleman - KRRC Regiment
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Thomas Henry Bilby

Corporal - Royal Field Artillery Regiment
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Herbert John Johnson

Rifleman - Rifle Brigade Regiment
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John Charles Merriman

Lance Corporal - KRRC Regiment
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Henry Mason

Rifleman - KRRC Regiment
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Frank Edward Jarvey

Rifleman - Rifle Brigade Regiment
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Horace Edward Patterson

Company Sergeant Major - Rifle Brigade Regiment
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Arthur George Smith

Rifleman - KRRC Regiment
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Fleetwood George Bolitho

Rifleman - Rifle Brigade Regiment
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George William Husk

Private - Essex Regiment
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Arthur Cornelius Cole

Lance Corporal - Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
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Herbert James Gilbert

2nd Lieutenant - Rifle Brigade Regiment
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W F or A J Bullock

Rifleman - Rifle Brigade Regiment
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