Saturday 10th April 2021  

Wartime Quorn

This section contains extracts and accounts relating to Quorn in both world wars. It includes many photographs of Quorn service men and women, information about the American 82nd Airborne Division who were based in Quorn in WW2, transcriptions of names from the war memorial (including when and where they died) ,and many other pieces of interesting information relating to life in Quorn during wartime.

There are also references to the Boer and Crimea wars. As with so many other towns and villages, Quorn had its quota of war heroes and tales of courage, valour and self-sacrifice which should not be forgotten.

		An unidentified WW2 airman in Quorn Baptist Churchyard In 1940, during WW2, the body of a young airman was found floating in the English ...... cont.
		Card from Quorn Prisoner of War Camp to Germany, 18th May 1947 Quorn POW camp was based in the grounds of Quorn House, with the entrance on Wood Lane, ...... cont.
		Card from Quorn Prisoner of War Camp to Germany, 17th April 1947 Quorn POW camp was based in the grounds of Quorn House, with the entrance on Wood Lane, ...... cont.
		Memories of the USA 82nd Airborne in Quorn – Looking back 76 years! Mary Totman (nee Webster) and her sister grew up in Quorn in WW2. The family had moved ...... cont.
		William Fantham, GCR Platelayer, Quorn, killed in WW1 Killed 8th May 1916 in France, aged 22 William George Fantham was the eldest of ...... cont.
		Evacuees arrive in Quorn, 1st September 1939 Leicester Mercury Friday 1st September 1939 How They Came To Leicestershire ...... cont.
		VJ Day – A Quorn man’s memento This framed memento of VJ Day is a representation of an American newspaper front page, ...... cont.
		Quorn Camp 1944 - US 82nd Airborne Division Members of the US 82nd Airborne Division, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 2nd Platoon ...... cont.
		Dedication of Lime Trees, Quorn, May 1952 In May 1952 Quorn dedicated an avenue of lime trees in Stafford Orchard, planted in ...... cont.
		Air raid shelter in Quorn World War Two started in 1939 and continued for six years. During this time there was ...... cont.
		Home Guard, including Quorn Platoon, 1942 This photograph of the Home Guard was taken in the garden of the Bulls Head (now the ...... cont.
		Quorn Parish Magazines – January to May 1940 This file contains five months of St Bartholomew's Church parish magazines. The copies ...... cont.
		Quorn Parish Magazines – July to December 1939 This file contains six months of St Bartholomew's Church parish magazines. The copies ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Charles Harold Adams Died 13th May 1915, aged 29 Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Reginald John Backhouse Died 9th August 1918, aged 31 Rosières, the Somme, France A Canadian ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Harry Bagley Died 31st May 1917, aged 29, France George Bagley was born on Nursery Lane in ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Frank Bale Died 11th August 1917, aged 34 Ypres, Belgium Born in Quorn in 1883 and ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest Bancroft Died Sunday 19th December 1915, aged 27 Ypres, Belgium Early years Ernest was ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Charles Ernest Barrett Died 9th March 1917, aged 21 Mesopotamia (Iraq) Marrying a Quorn girl Charles ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Edward Arthur Benskin Died 25th September 1916, aged 19 Battle of the Somme, Gueudecourt, France Life ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Joseph Frank Brookes Birkin Died 25th September 1915, aged 21 Ypres, Belgium Life before the war Frank ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Alfred Blackshaw Died 29th June 1915, aged 17 Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey The youngest soldier to ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest Harold Bonner Died 9th September 1917, aged 20 Villers-Faucon, the Somme, France Ernest was ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Henry Bowler Died 29th September 1918, aged 33 Second Battle of the Somme, St Quentin, ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Percy Boyer Died 3rd May 1918, aged 18 La Bassée Canal, France Percy Boyer was born in ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Louis Brewin Died 14th July 1917, aged 23 St Leger, the Somme, France Before the ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Walter Brewin Died 10th August 1918, aged 28 France A difficult start in life Walter was ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Edwin Brown Died 13th August 1915, aged 27 Hooge, Belgium George was one of five children. ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Henry Burton Died 27th April 1917, aged 22 Loos, France Prior to the war Albert Burton was ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John (Jack) Cawrey Died 30th October 1917, aged 40 Passchendaele, Belgium Growing up in ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Cecil Chapman Died 21st April 1915, aged 22 Ypres, Belgium Early years Although Chapman is ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Hilary Calvert Clarke Died 31st August 1918, aged 22 Bailleul, France Hilary Calvert Clarke was born ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Henry Clay Died 27th April 1915, aged 20 Vlamertinghe, Belgium Before the war William ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John James Collington Died 28th January 1915, aged 28 Estaires, Northern France Pre-war days John ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Walter Daft Died 20th September 1915, aged 29 Ypres, Belgium Walter Daft was the youngest ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - James William Dockray Died 20th July 1918, aged 19 France The Dockray family moved to Quorn from ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Percy Facer Died 9th April 1918, aged 18 Loos, France A well-known family in Quorn Facer ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Joseph Fewkes Died 26th September 1916, aged 48 The Somme, France A very old Quorn ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Cox Flanders Died 18th May 1916, aged 20 Mesopotamia, Iraq Family background William Cox ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John (Jack) Peer Flanders Died 25th September 1916, aged 21 Battle of the Somme, Gueudecourt, ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Walter Fletcher Died 25th September 1918, aged 34 Sorel-le-Grand, the Somme, France Early ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Edward Gamble Died 16th August 1917, aged 22 Ypres, Belgium Gamble is a well-known name in ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Walter Albert Gartshore Died 1st September 1916, aged 24 Bienvillers, France Family history George ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest Grant Died 21st March 1918, aged 31 Bapaume, France Early years The Grant family ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Henry Hackett Died 18th September 1918, aged 21 Battle of Épehy, the Somme, France Early ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Hallam Died 22nd October 1914, aged 29 Rue du Bois, France The first to die The ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Matthew Henry Hickling Died 13th May 1915, aged 21 Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - James Martin Hollingsworth Died 5th October 1916, aged 28 The Somme, France James was born in Quorn in ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - James Howlett Died 5th October 1918, aged 33 Bellenglise, France Family history James ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Harry Hubbard Died 12th April 1916, aged 32 Poperinge, Belgium Before the war Henry ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Hudson Died 3rd October 1918, aged 29 Bellenglise, France Early years William was ...... cont.
		WW1 Roll of Honour - James Hutton Died 6th October 1917, aged 25 France James Hutton was born in Quorn and was ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Thomas Hutton Died 26th September 1917, aged 35 Zonnebeke, Belgium Thomas Hutton was the ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John Newton Jacques Died 27th September 1917, aged 25 Zonnebeke, Belgium A tough start in life At ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Frank Joiner Died 8th July 1917, aged 22 Metz, France A childhood in Quorn Frank ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Jones Died 4th October 1917, aged 19 Broodseinde, Ypres, Belgium William and Mary ...... cont.
		WW1 Roll of Honour - Edward Basil Langrish Died 3rd October 1918, aged 19 Grévillers, Bapaume, Second Battle of the Somme, ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Ernest Lee Died 13th November 1916, aged 22 Hebuterne, France A hard start in life and moving ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Harold Lockwood Died 3rd October 1918, aged 20 Bellenglise, France Early days Sarah Wilders, ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Lovett Died 25th September 1916, aged 30 Gueudecourt, the Somme, France An old Quorn ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John Jesson Lucas Died 13th May 1915, aged 20 Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Samuel William Martin Died 28th May 1915, aged 25 North West of Festubert, Pas de Calais, France Early ...... cont.
		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.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Hubert Mason Moore Died 5th September 1918, aged 24 Gavrelle, Arras, France The Moore family on ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Charley Ottey Died 30th July 1916, aged 18 Wounded in France, died in a military hospital in ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Gabriel King Peirce Died 26th October 1914, aged 39 Festubert, Western Front, France William ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John Henry Pick 25th September 1917, aged 26 Marquise Quarry, France Roots in ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Pollard Died 21st June 1917, aged 23 Lens, France Early years The Pollard family ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Edward Rennocks Died 3rd October 1918, aged 22 St Quentin, France Roots in Quorn The Rennocks ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Victor Rennocks Died 23rd April 1916, aged 26 Hinckley Hospital Family background The ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Bertie James Shenton Died 3rd August 1916, aged 19 Ovillers near Albert, France Early years Bertie ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Jack Shephard Died 18th July 1917, aged 43 Mesopotamia, Iraq Growing up in Quorn The 1881 ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Fred Squires Died 3rd December 1915, aged 32 Lemnos Island, Greece Frederick Charles ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William John Steer Died 13th May 1915, aged 28 Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Silas Stevenson Died 15th September 1916, aged 28 The Somme, France Silas Stevenson was born ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Alfred Hall Taylor Died 30th October 1914, aged 30 First Battle of Ypres, Belgium Life prior to the ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Laurence Wakeling Died 12th July 1917, aged 33 Coxyde, Belgium Laurence Wakeling was the son of ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest William Ward Died 27th October 1914, aged 24 Lille, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, French Flanders A ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Harry Webster Died 26th November 1914, aged 37 Sheerness, Kent Early years in Quorn There ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Frank Cuthbert White Died 13th May 1915, aged 20 Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Charles Kirbell White Died 1st September 1918, aged 33 Beaulencourt, France Charles’ ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Sydney Francis Whysall Died 26th March 1918, aged 32 Gailly, the Somme, France Early years The ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John Willday Died 4th January 1919, aged 31, buried in Quorn Churchyard. Died of wounds received ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Henry James Williams Died 26th December 1914, aged 26 Aldershot, England Prior to the war Henry ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Wood Died 9th October 1917, aged 19 Mendinghem, Belgium Born into poverty in ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Arthur Wilfred Woodforth Died 7th April 1918, aged 20 Wesel, Germany Prior to the war Arthur Wilfred ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Henry Wright Died 14th July 1916, aged 24 The Somme, France A difficult start in ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Harold Wright Died 14th September 1915, aged 33 In hospital in London from wounds sustained in the ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ezra Wykes Died 4th December 1917, aged 29 Died of wounds, the Somme, France The 1901 ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Fred Wykes Died 21st April 1916, aged 24 Hooge, Ypres, Belgium Roots in Quorn Fred Wykes ...... cont.
		Quorn Rawlins Grammar School WW1 Memorial Shield This shield was presented to Rawlins Grammar School by George and Mary White from Quorn, ...... cont.
		Quorn Rawlins Grammar School, Old Quornians Roll of Honour There are three rolls of honour hanging in Rawlins school. The most recent of these ...... cont.
		Quorn Rawlins Grammar School, WW1 Roll of Honour There are three rolls of honour hanging in Rawlins school. The second oldest of these ...... cont.
		Quorn Rawlins Grammar School, Boer War Roll of Honour There are three rolls of honour hanging in Rawlins school. The oldest of these ...... cont.
		Quorn Scouts in WW1 The first Scout troop in Quorn is recorded in 1912, just two years before WW1 started. ...... cont.
		Triptych War Memorial in Quorn St Bartholomew’s Church After the WW1 armistice, a permanent memorial to those who died was commissioned for the ...... cont.
		WW1 Armistice in Quorn – Newspaper report Loughborough Echo 15th November 1918 Shortly after 11 o’clock on Monday morning the ...... cont.
		Quorn War Memorial, 1920s Quorn war memorial was unveiled in 1921 and this photograph was taken very shortly ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Casualties – Analysed by street There was not one street in Quorn that did not suffer in some way because of the war. ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Casualties – Comparison with local villages The graphs below show numbers of Quorn lives lost in WW1, compared to those lost in some ...... cont.

Total: 343 artefacts returned over 4 pages

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