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Mullane, an Irishman, was born in Ahmednager, Deccan, eastern India in October 1858. He was approximately 21 years old and a Sergeant in the Royal Horse Artillery when he earned the Victoria Cross during the 2^nd Afghan War at the Defeat at Maiwand, north of Khandahar on 27 July 1880. He was living at 31 Coronation Road, Plaistow with his sister, Mrs E. Mahoney when he died on 20 November 1919.  Aged 61, he was then working as a Writer at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. He was buried in an unmarked grave in St Patrick's Catholic Cemetery, Leytonstone. There is a memorial plaque in the cemetery chapel, given by his regiment, the Royal Artillery.

By James Briggs

Edgar Kinghorn Myles was born in July 1894 in East Ham. As a boy he moved with his family to Blake Hall Crescent, Wanstead. He went to East Ham Council School, Shrewsbury Rd and thence to East Ham Technical College, which, some years later became East Ham Grammar School. The School opened in 1905, when he was 11 and it's therefore likely that he was in the first entry year. After School, around 1910 I guess, he became a Clerk for the Port of London Authority.

George Drewry VC was born on 3rd November 1894, the son of Thomas and Mary Drewry of 58 Claremont Road, Forest Gate. He attended Merchant Taylors' School in the City of London.