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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: France and Flanders:

Horace Allan Wainwright

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

Henry George Peers

Private - Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment

J Marrison

Sergeant - The King's (Liverpool 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

Albert Bracey

Gunner - Royal Field Artillery Regiment

W Bewick

Private - Northumberland Fusiliers Regiment

Hugh Cecil Marnham

Second Lieutenant (pilot) - Royal Flying Corps Regiment

Maurice Collins

Private - Royal Fusiliers Regiment

Albert Bracey

Gunner - Royal Field Artillery Regiment

James Robert Laws

Private - Durham Light Infantry Regiment

Arthur Ince

Private - South Wales Borderers Regiment

Other heroes

Place of death