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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.
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