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.
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 |  | 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.
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 |  | 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.
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 |  | 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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Total: 343 artefacts returned over 7 pages