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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.
 | | Quorn and the Spanish flu epidemic
The worldwide Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 hit the UK in waves and it is estimated that ...... cont.
 | | | |  | | Quorn Parish Magazines Quarter 4, October to December, 1918
This file contains three months of St Bartholomew's Church parish magazines. They were ...... cont.
| | | | | | Quorn Parish Magazines Quarter 3, July to September, 1918
This file contains three months of St Bartholomew's Church parish magazines. They were ...... cont.
| | | | | | Quorn Parish Magazines Quarter 2, April to June, 1918
This file contains three months of St Bartholomew's Church parish magazines. They were ...... cont.
| | | | | | Quorn Parish Magazines Quarter 1, January to March, 1918
This file contains three months of St Bartholomew's Church parish magazines. They were ...... cont.
| | | | | | Quorn Parish Magazines Quarter 4, October to December, 1917
This file contains three months of St Bartholomew's Church parish magazines. They were ...... cont.
| | | | | | Quorn Parish Magazines Quarter 3, July to September, 1917
This file contains three months of St Bartholomew's Church parish magazines. They were ...... cont.
| | | | | | Quorn Parish Magazines Quarter 2, April to June, 1917
This file contains three months of St Bartholomew's Church parish magazines. They were ...... cont.
| | | | | | Quorn Parish Magazines Quarter 1, January to March, 1917
This file contains three months of St Bartholomew's Church parish magazines. They were ...... cont.
| | | | | | Quorn Parish Magazines Quarter 4, October to December, 1916
This file contains three months of St Bartholomew's Church parish magazines. They were ...... cont.
| | | | | | Quorn Parish Magazines Quarter 3, July to September, 1916
This file contains three months of St Bartholomew's Church parish magazines. They were ...... cont.
| | | | | | Quorn Parish Magazines Quarter 2, April to June, 1916
This file contains three months of St Bartholomew's Church parish magazines. They were ...... cont.
| | | | | | Quorn Parish Magazines Quarter 1, January to March, 1916
This file contains three months of St Bartholomew's Church parish magazines. They were ...... cont.
| | | | | | Quorn Parish Magazines Quarter 4, October to December, 1915
This file contains three months of St Bartholomew's Church parish magazines. They were ...... cont.
| | | | | | Quorn Parish Magazines Quarter 3, July to September, 1915
This file contains three months of St Bartholomew's Church parish magazines. They were ...... cont.
| | | | | | Quorn Parish Magazines Quarter 2, April to June, 1915
This file contains three months of St Bartholomew's Church parish magazines. They were ...... cont.
| | | | | | Quorn Parish Magazines Quarter 1, January to March, 1915
This file contains three months of St Bartholomew's Church parish magazines. They were ...... cont.
| | | | | | Quorn Parish Magazines Quarter 4, October to December, 1914
This file contains three months of St Bartholomew's Church parish magazines. They were ...... cont.
| | | | | | Quorn Parish Magazines Quarter 3, July to September, 1914
This file contains three months of St Bartholomew's Church parish magazines. They were ...... cont.
| | | |  | | Mizpah brooch Arthur and Doris Green, WW2
Arthur Green from Quorn and Doris Ada Crowsley from Bedford, would never have met had it ...... cont.
| | | |  | | Home Guard, Quorn WW2
This photograph was supplied by the family of the late Elsie Bishop who lived with her ...... cont.
| | | |  | | 82nd Airborne Paratroopers at Quorn Camp 1944
Francis X. Schweikert, was an American paratrooper based at Quorn Camp from July to ...... cont.
| | | |  | | 82nd Airborne Paratroopers at Quorn Camp 1944
Francis X. Schweikert, was an American paratrooper based at Quorn Camp from July to ...... cont.
| | | |  | | 82nd Airborne Paratroopers at Quorn Camp 1944
Francis X. Schweikert, was an American paratrooper based at Quorn Camp from July to ...... cont.
| | | | | | Quorn Camp, Wood Lane
Quorn Camp was situated off Wood Lane, on land belonging to Quorn House, which used to be ...... cont.
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Total: 245 artefacts returned over 10 pages
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