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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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Death: Killed in action:

Horace Allan Wainwright

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

Henry George Peers

Private - Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment

William Feast

Private - Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment

Joshua Fardon

Lance Corporal - Royal West Kent Regiment

Albert Bracey

Gunner - Royal Field Artillery Regiment

Charles Bull

Able Seaman - Royal Navy Regiment

William Holbrook

Petty Officer - Royal Navy Regiment

Frederick Mortimer

Leading Stoker - Royal Navy Regiment

Hugh Cecil Marnham

Second Lieutenant (pilot) - Royal Flying Corps Regiment

Maurice Collins

Private - Royal Fusiliers Regiment

Frank Edward Jarvey

Rifleman - Rifle Brigade Regiment

Albert Bracey

Gunner - Royal Field Artillery Regiment

James Robert Laws

Private - Durham Light Infantry Regiment

Arthur Ince

Private - South Wales Borderers Regiment

Herbert James Gilbert

2nd Lieutenant - Rifle Brigade Regiment

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