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Quorn Deaths and Inquests
Some of the records in this section can
be quite gruesome and graphic. Please be aware of this, especially
if you are seeking family members. The writing style of our forebears
did not reflect sensitivities we might have today! We have also included
obituaries here.
![Tragedy at a Quorn bus stop, 1966](graphics/pdfs.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Tragedy at a Quorn bus stop, 1966 Dennis Marchant, with the help of the Loughborough Echo and the Quorn Parish Council ...... cont.
![view detail](graphics/view.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![Obituary for Murray Rumsey from Quorn, 1963](graphics/newspapers.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Obituary for Murray Rumsey from Quorn, 1963 Murray Rumsey came to Quorn in 1910 and settled here, close to his brother, Rev Henry ...... cont.
![view detail](graphics/view.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![Sad death of the Quorn Parish Clerk – 1852](graphics/newspapers.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Sad death of the Quorn Parish Clerk – 1852 Nottingham Review and General Advertiser for the Midland Counties
Friday 26th November ...... cont.
![view detail](graphics/view.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Charles Harold Adams](artefacts/images100wide/2342.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Charles Harold Adams Died 13th May 1915, aged 29
Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
![view detail](graphics/view.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Reginald John Backhouse](artefacts/images100wide/2341.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Reginald John Backhouse Died 9th August 1918, aged 31
Rosières, the Somme, France
A Canadian ...... cont.
![view detail](graphics/view.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Harry Bagley](artefacts/images100wide/2340.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Harry Bagley Died 31st May 1917, aged 29, France
George Bagley was born on Nursery Lane in ...... cont.
![view detail](graphics/view.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Frank Bale](artefacts/images100wide/2339.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Frank Bale Died 11th August 1917, aged 34
Ypres, Belgium
Born in Quorn in 1883 and ...... cont.
![view detail](graphics/view.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest Bancroft](artefacts/images100wide/2338.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest Bancroft Died Sunday 19th December 1915, aged 27
Ypres, Belgium
Early years
Ernest was ...... cont.
![view detail](graphics/view.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Charles Ernest Barrett](artefacts/images100wide/2337.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Charles Ernest Barrett Died 9th March 1917, aged 21
Mesopotamia (Iraq)
Marrying a Quorn girl
Charles ...... cont.
![view detail](graphics/view.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Edward Arthur Benskin](artefacts/images100wide/2336.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Edward Arthur Benskin Died 25th September 1916, aged 19
Battle of the Somme, Gueudecourt, France
Life ...... cont.
![view detail](graphics/view.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Joseph Frank Brookes Birkin](artefacts/images100wide/2335.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Joseph Frank Brookes Birkin Died 25th September 1915, aged 22
Ypres, Belgium
Life before the war
Frank ...... cont.
![view detail](graphics/view.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Alfred Blackshaw](artefacts/images100wide/2334.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Alfred Blackshaw Died 29th June 1915, aged 17
Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey
The youngest soldier to ...... cont.
![view detail](graphics/view.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest Harold Bonner](artefacts/images100wide/2333.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest Harold Bonner Died 9th September 1917, aged 20
Villers-Faucon, the Somme, France
Ernest was ...... cont.
![view detail](graphics/view.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Henry Bowler](artefacts/images100wide/2332.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Henry Bowler Died 29th September 1918, aged 33
Second Battle of the Somme, St Quentin, ...... cont.
![view detail](graphics/view.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Percy Boyer](artefacts/images100wide/2331.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Percy Boyer Died 3rd May 1918, aged 18
La Bassée Canal, France
Percy Boyer was born in ...... cont.
![view detail](graphics/view.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Louis Brewin](artefacts/images100wide/2330.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Louis Brewin Died 14th July 1917, aged 23
St Leger, the Somme, France
Before the ...... cont.
![view detail](graphics/view.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Walter Brewin](artefacts/images100wide/2329.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Walter Brewin Died 10th August 1918, aged 28
France
A difficult start in life
Walter was ...... cont.
![view detail](graphics/view.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Edwin Brown](artefacts/images100wide/2328.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Edwin Brown Died 13th August 1915, aged 27
Hooge, Belgium
George was one of five children. ...... cont.
![view detail](graphics/view.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Henry Burton](artefacts/images100wide/2327.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Henry Burton Died 27th April 1917, aged 22
Loos, France
Prior to the war
Albert Burton was ...... cont.
![view detail](graphics/view.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John (Jack) Cawrey](artefacts/images100wide/2326.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John (Jack) Cawrey Died 30th October 1917, aged 40
Passchendaele, Belgium
Growing up in ...... cont.
![view detail](graphics/view.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Cecil Chapman](artefacts/images100wide/2325.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Cecil Chapman Died 21st April 1915, aged 22
Ypres, Belgium
Early years
Although Chapman is ...... cont.
![view detail](graphics/view.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Hilary Calvert Clarke](artefacts/images100wide/2324.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Hilary Calvert Clarke Died 31st August 1918, aged 22
Bailleul, France
Hilary Calvert Clarke was born ...... cont.
![view detail](graphics/view.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Henry Clay](artefacts/images100wide/2323.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Henry Clay Died 27th April 1915, aged 20
Vlamertinghe, Belgium
Before the war
William ...... cont.
![view detail](graphics/view.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John James Collington](artefacts/images100wide/2322.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John James Collington Died 28th January 1915, aged 28
Estaires, Northern France
Pre-war days
John ...... cont.
![view detail](graphics/view.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | ![Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Walter Daft](artefacts/images100wide/2321.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | 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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