Apart from the famous local names such
as Farnham, Warner, Cradock and Firr; this site has plenty of interesting
snippets concerning village folk. You can also use the search box
on the upper right hand side to look for a family surname which interests
you. We would like to expand this section, so if you can supply information
about your family in Quorn, we would be pleased to publish it here.
 |  | Old Quorn residents - George and Mary Gartshore George and Mary Gartshore were born in 1830, married in 1854 and moved to Quorn in about ...... cont.
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 |  | Gartshore family, summer fete, Stafford Orchard, 1960s A summer fete on Stafford Orchard in the 1960s, with George and Olive Gartshore and their ...... cont.
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 |  | Gartshore family, 15 High Street Quorn, 1960s The elderly couple in these photographs are George Harry Gartshore and his wife Olive, ...... cont.
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 |  | Alfred Charles Morrison of Quorn - Pioneer of the electric milk float A fascinating article about Alfred Morrison, a former village resident, who was an ...... cont.
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 |  | Mee and Marlow family pictures These family photographs were kindly supplied by Valerie Roche who lives in France, but ...... cont.
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 |  | Machine shop at M. Wright and Sons, Quorn, early 1920s In the 1920s the machines were belt driven, feeding off overhead line-shafting. As well ...... cont.
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 |  | Student life at Soar House, Quorn, in the 1960s Paul Dilks was a student at Loughborough College of Education from 1966 to 1969 and his ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Golden Jubilee Celebrations, May 2002 The Quorndon Magazine had reported that for the 4th year running, the sun shone on the ...... cont.
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QUORN F.C. - NEW GROUND AND ...... cont.
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Saturday 24th April 1926
DESPICABLE ...... cont.
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 |  | M Wright and Sons, Quorn - Centenary Celebration, 1960 - Programme M Wright and Sons, elastic webbing manufacturers, started in Leicester in 1860 and moved ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn House, 1886 Quorn House on Meeting Street was originally known as the Over Hall and was the seat of ...... cont.
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 |  | Retirement concert for Jack Briers, Head of Quorn Primary School, 1971 These photographs were taken on the occasion of the retirement of Jack Briers, the ...... cont.
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Teachers, left to right: Jack ...... cont.
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 |  | Phyllis Field (nee Broom), 1917 - 2007 Phyllis Broom was born at what is now 37 Farnham Street in Quorn and lived in the village ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Village Event, early/mid 1950s A village event in the early/mid 1950s. The gentleman holding the darts aloft is former ...... cont.
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 |  | William Henry Norman (PC Billy Norman) 1889 to 1958 William Henry (Billy) Norman was born on 29th March 1889 in Oadby. After distinguished ...... cont.
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 |  | PC Billy Norman – served in Quorn 1930 to 1944 In the 1980s and 1990s Harry Limbert, who lived in Quorn talked to a lot of the older ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn St Bartholomew’s Primary School, early 1950s Taken in the early 1950s in the old primary school playground, when the school was on ...... cont.
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 |  | Thompson and Gamble, builders of the Cradock Drive housing development Who were Thompson and Gamble?
Thompson and Gamble were a well-known ...... cont.
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 |  | The QUORN Tool and Cutter Grinder Since its launch in 1974, the Quorn Tool and Cutter Grinder has achieved legendary status ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Baptist Church Christian Endeavour Group, early 1900s The Baptist Church in Quorn has always had a large following since they came to the ...... cont.
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 |  | 12 Freehold Street, Quorn – Shop and Off-Licence The first of these photographs was taken in about 1909 and shows Joseph Birkin standing ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Ladies in Skegness, 1953 Four Quorn ladies enjoying the sunshine in ‘Skeggie’, in coronation year 1953.
Only ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn St Bartholomew's National School, 1908/1909 In the first part of last century, what we know today as primary schools kept children ...... cont.
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 |  | Robert Sutton, Quorn Family Butcher This photograph was taken on High Street in Quorn around 1920, and shows Robert and Gerty ...... cont.
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 |  | William Freer born 1830 in Quorn, died 17th February 1887, Denbighshire William Freer was born in Quorn in 1830. By the 1850s he was a kennel man for Quorn Hunt, ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Charles Harold Adams Died 13th May 1915, aged 29
Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Reginald John Backhouse Died 9th August 1918, aged 31
Rosières, the Somme, France
A Canadian ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Harry Bagley Died 31st May 1917, aged 29, France
George Bagley was born on Nursery Lane in ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Frank Bale Died 11th August 1917, aged 34
Ypres, Belgium
Born in Quorn in 1883 and ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest Bancroft Died Sunday 19th December 1915, aged 27
Ypres, Belgium
Early years
Ernest was ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Charles Ernest Barrett Died 9th March 1917, aged 21
Mesopotamia (Iraq)
Marrying a Quorn girl
Charles ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Edward Arthur Benskin Died 25th September 1916, aged 19
Battle of the Somme, Gueudecourt, France
Life ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Joseph Frank Brookes Birkin Died 25th September 1915, aged 21
Ypres, Belgium
Life before the war
Frank ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Alfred Blackshaw Died 29th June 1915, aged 17
Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey
The youngest soldier to ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest Harold Bonner Died 9th September 1917, aged 20
Villers-Faucon, the Somme, France
Ernest was ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Henry Bowler Died 29th September 1918, aged 33
Second Battle of the Somme, St Quentin, ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Percy Boyer Died 3rd May 1918, aged 18
La Bassée Canal, France
Percy Boyer was born in ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Louis Brewin Died 14th July 1917, aged 23
St Leger, the Somme, France
Before the ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Walter Brewin Died 10th August 1918, aged 28
France
A difficult start in life
Walter was ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Edwin Brown Died 13th August 1915, aged 27
Hooge, Belgium
George was one of five children. ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Henry Burton Died 27th April 1917, aged 22
Loos, France
Prior to the war
Albert Burton was ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John (Jack) Cawrey Died 30th October 1917, aged 40
Passchendaele, Belgium
Growing up in ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Cecil Chapman Died 21st April 1915, aged 22
Ypres, Belgium
Early years
Although Chapman is ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Hilary Calvert Clarke Died 31st August 1918, aged 22
Bailleul, France
Hilary Calvert Clarke was born ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Henry Clay Died 27th April 1915, aged 20
Vlamertinghe, Belgium
Before the war
William ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John James Collington Died 28th January 1915, aged 28
Estaires, Northern France
Pre-war days
John ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Walter Daft Died 20th September 1915, aged 29
Ypres, Belgium
Walter Daft was the youngest ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - James William Dockray Died 20th July 1918, aged 19
France
The Dockray family moved to Quorn from ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Percy Facer Died 9th April 1918, aged 18
Loos, France
A well-known family in Quorn
Facer ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Joseph Fewkes Died 26th September 1916, aged 48
The Somme, France
A very old Quorn ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Cox Flanders Died 18th May 1916, aged 20
Mesopotamia, Iraq
Family background
William Cox ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John (Jack) Peer Flanders Died 25th September 1916, aged 21
Battle of the Somme, Gueudecourt, ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Walter Fletcher Died 25th September 1918, aged 34
Sorel-le-Grand, the Somme, France
Early ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Edward Gamble Died 16th August 1917, aged 22
Ypres, Belgium
Gamble is a well-known name in ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Walter Albert Gartshore Died 1st September 1916, aged 24
Bienvillers, France
Family history
George ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest Grant Died 21st March 1918, aged 31
Bapaume, France
Early years
The Grant family ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Henry Hackett Died 18th September 1918, aged 21
Battle of Épehy, the Somme, France
Early ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Hallam Died 22nd October 1914, aged 29
Rue du Bois, France
The first to die
The ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Matthew Henry Hickling Died 13th May 1915, aged 21
Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - James Martin Hollingsworth Died 5th October 1916, aged 28
The Somme, France
James was born in Quorn in ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - James Howlett Died 5th October 1918, aged 33
Bellenglise, France
Family history
James ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Harry Hubbard Died 12th April 1916, aged 32
Poperinge, Belgium
Before the war
Henry ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Hudson Died 3rd October 1918, aged 29
Bellenglise, France
Early years
William was ...... cont.
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 |  | WW1 Roll of Honour - James Hutton Died 6th October 1917, aged 25
France
James Hutton was born in Quorn and was ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Thomas Hutton Died 26th September 1917, aged 35
Zonnebeke, Belgium
Thomas Hutton was the ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John Newton Jacques Died 27th September 1917, aged 25
Zonnebeke, Belgium
A tough start in life
At ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Frank Joiner Died 8th July 1917, aged 22
Metz, France
A childhood in Quorn
Frank ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Jones Died 4th October 1917, aged 19
Broodseinde, Ypres, Belgium
William and Mary ...... cont.
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 |  | WW1 Roll of Honour - Edward Basil Langrish Died 3rd October 1918, aged 19
Grévillers, Bapaume, Second Battle of the Somme, ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Ernest Lee Died 13th November 1916, aged 22
Hebuterne, France
A hard start in life and moving ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Harold Lockwood Died 3rd October 1918, aged 20
Bellenglise, France
Early days
Sarah Wilders, ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Lovett Died 25th September 1916, aged 30
Gueudecourt, the Somme, France
An old Quorn ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John Jesson Lucas Died 13th May 1915, aged 20
Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Samuel William Martin Died 28th May 1915, aged 25
North West of Festubert, Pas de Calais, France
Early ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Daniel and William Moore Died 13th May 1915, aged 25 and 23
Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Hubert Mason Moore Died 5th September 1918, aged 24
Gavrelle, Arras, France
The Moore family on ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Charley Ottey Died 30th July 1916, aged 18
Wounded in France, died in a military hospital in ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Gabriel King Peirce Died 26th October 1914, aged 39
Festubert, Western Front, France
William ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John Henry Pick 25th September 1917, aged 26
Marquise Quarry, France
Roots in ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Pollard Died 21st June 1917, aged 23
Lens, France
Early years
The Pollard family ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Edward Rennocks Died 3rd October 1918, aged 22
St Quentin, France
Roots in Quorn
The Rennocks ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Victor Rennocks Died 23rd April 1916, aged 26
Hinckley Hospital
Family background
The ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Bertie James Shenton Died 3rd August 1916, aged 19
Ovillers near Albert, France
Early years
Bertie ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Jack Shephard Died 18th July 1917, aged 43
Mesopotamia, Iraq
Growing up in Quorn
The 1881 ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Fred Squires Died 3rd December 1915, aged 32
Lemnos Island, Greece
Frederick Charles ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William John Steer Died 13th May 1915, aged 28
Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Silas Stevenson Died 15th September 1916, aged 28
The Somme, France
Silas Stevenson was born ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Alfred Hall Taylor Died 30th October 1914, aged 30
First Battle of Ypres, Belgium
Life prior to the ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Laurence Wakeling Died 12th July 1917, aged 33
Coxyde, Belgium
Laurence Wakeling was the son of ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest William Ward Died 27th October 1914, aged 24
Lille, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, French Flanders
A ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Harry Webster Died 26th November 1914, aged 37
Sheerness, Kent
Early years in Quorn
There ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Frank Cuthbert White Died 13th May 1915, aged 20
Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Charles Kirbell White Died 1st September 1918, aged 33
Beaulencourt, France
Charles’ ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Sydney Francis Whysall Died 26th March 1918, aged 32
Gailly, the Somme, France
Early years
The ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John Willday Died 4th January 1919, aged 31, buried in Quorn Churchyard.
Died of wounds received ...... cont.
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Total: 881 artefacts returned over 9 pages