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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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Hugh Cecil Marnham

Second Lieutenant (pilot)
Royal Flying Corps

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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.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Service Number
Unknown
Mother
Madeleine
Father
Herbert Marnham
Spouse
Unknown
Buried
Le Touret Memorial, France
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