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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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Cyril Arthur Edmondson

Lieutenenant
Royal Naval Division

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Born
Finsbury Park - 30 March 1892
Died
Unknown - 13 November 1916
Age
24
Death
Unknown
Served in
Royal Naval Division
Awards
Mentioned in Dispatches
Memorials
Unknown
Lived
Bournemouth, UK

Cyril Arthur's story

His mother had opened the new church building in 1922, and dedicated the bells as a war memorial in 1925.

Also served in Gallipolli. Buried in Ancre British Cemetery, Beaumont-Hamel, France.

His brother Percy was also killed in the war.

He is remmbered on the Mill Hill School memorial www.millhillatwar.org.uk from which this is taken: An officer who knew him well wrote:-“I met him out here shortly after he landed from Gallipoli.  He was his old cheery self, but yet I noticed a difference. He had become more serious and responsible looking, and as we talked and laughed over the good old tennis days, he struck me as a Boy who knew what he might have to go through, but had made up his mind to go through with it with a brave and stout heart and a cheery face. He did.”

 

 

 

 

Service Number
Hood Battalion, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Mother
Isabel
Father
James
Spouse
Unknown
Buried
Unknown
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