Tuesday 7th July 2020  

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.

		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.

Total: 335 artefacts returned over 14 pages

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