Hugh Cecil Marnham
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- Born
- Hampstead - 21 January 1896
- Died
- France and Flanders - 22 August 1916
- Age
- 20
- Death
- Killed in action
- Served in
- Royal Flying Corps
- Awards
- Unknown
- Memorials
- Unknown
- Lived
- Frognal Rise, Hampstead Heath
Hugh Cecil's story
His father, Herbert Marnham, was Treasurer of the Baptist Union of Great Britain in 1921, when it proposed a resolution supporting West Ham Central Mission in the building of the Memorial Church. The family was very involved with the church and its work in the East End of London, and in 1925 Herbert Marnham was Treasurer and Chair of the building commitee.
Hugh Marnham is also remembered on the Mill Hill School Roll of Honour, http://www.milllhillatwar.org.uk/ which has this extract from letter from Major W. J. S. M., No. 10 Squadron, R.F. C. :
” Your son was one of our best pilots, and was one of the cheeriest, pluckiest fellows I have ever met- always smiling and always ready for anything. We all feel his death very deeply. It leaves a vacancy that will be very hard to fill.”
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