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.
 |  | 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.
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 |  | William Fantham, GCR Platelayer, Quorn, killed in WW1 Killed 8th May 1916 in France, aged 22
William George Fantham was the eldest of ...... cont.
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 |  | Evacuees arrive in Quorn, 1st September 1939 Leicester Mercury
Friday 1st September 1939
How They Came To Leicestershire ...... cont.
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 |  | VJ Day – A Quorn man’s memento This framed memento of VJ Day is a representation of an American newspaper front page, ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Camp 1944 - US 82nd Airborne Division Members of the US 82nd Airborne Division, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 2nd Platoon ...... cont.
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 |  | Dedication of Lime Trees, Quorn, May 1952 In May 1952 Quorn dedicated an avenue of lime trees in Stafford Orchard, planted in ...... cont.
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 |  | Air raid shelter in Quorn World War Two started in 1939 and continued for six years. During this time there was ...... cont.
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 |  | Home Guard, including Quorn Platoon, 1942 This photograph of the Home Guard was taken in the garden of the Bulls Head (now the ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Parish Magazines – January to May 1940 This file contains five months of St Bartholomew's Church parish magazines. The copies ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Parish Magazines – July to December 1939 This file contains six months of St Bartholomew's Church parish magazines. The copies ...... 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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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Henry James Williams Died 26th December 1914, aged 26
Aldershot, England
Prior to the war
Henry ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Wood Died 9th October 1917, aged 19
Mendinghem, Belgium
Born into poverty in ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Arthur Wilfred Woodforth Died 7th April 1918, aged 20
Wesel, Germany
Prior to the war
Arthur Wilfred ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Henry Wright Died 14th July 1916, aged 24
The Somme, France
A difficult start in ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Harold Wright Died 14th September 1915, aged 33
In hospital in London from wounds sustained in the ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ezra Wykes Died 4th December 1917, aged 29
Died of wounds, the Somme, France
The 1901 ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Fred Wykes Died 21st April 1916, aged 24
Hooge, Ypres, Belgium
Roots in Quorn
Fred Wykes ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Rawlins Grammar School WW1 Memorial Shield This shield was presented to Rawlins Grammar School by George and Mary White from Quorn, ...... cont.
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 |  | 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.
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 |  | Quorn Rawlins Grammar School, WW1 Roll of Honour There are three rolls of honour hanging in Rawlins school. The second oldest of these ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Rawlins Grammar School, Boer War Roll of Honour There are three rolls of honour hanging in Rawlins school. The oldest of these ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Scouts in WW1 The first Scout troop in Quorn is recorded in 1912, just two years before WW1 started. ...... cont.
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 |  | 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.
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 |  | WW1 Armistice in Quorn – Newspaper report Loughborough Echo 15th November 1918
Shortly after 11 o’clock on Monday morning the ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn War Memorial, 1920s Quorn war memorial was unveiled in 1921 and this photograph was taken very shortly ...... cont.
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 |  | 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.
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 |  | 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.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Statistics – Casualties throughout the war The pattern of war deaths of Quorn men was not spread evenly throughout the war, or ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Home Guard, Loughborough Road, 1942 The older photograph was taken in October 1942. The three men belong to Quorn Home Guard ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Home Guard 1942 The Home Guard were originally known as the LDV (Local Defence Volunteers) and were ...... cont.
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Total: 340 artefacts returned over 4 pages