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 Dennis Marchant, with the help of the Loughborough Echo and the Quorn Parish Council ...... cont.
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| | Obituary for Murray Rumsey from Quorn, 1963 Murray Rumsey came to Quorn in 1910 and settled here, close to his brother, Rev Henry ...... cont.
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| | Sad death of the Quorn Parish Clerk – 1852 Nottingham Review and General Advertiser for the Midland Counties
Friday 26th November ...... 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 22
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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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Hudson Died 3rd October 1918, aged 29
Bellenglise, France
Early years
William was ...... cont.
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| | WW1 Roll of Honour - James Hutton Died 6th October 1917, aged 25
France
James Hutton was born in Quorn and was ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Thomas Hutton Died 26th September 1917, aged 35
Zonnebeke, Belgium
Thomas Hutton was the ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John Newton Jacques Died 27th September 1917, aged 25
Zonnebeke, Belgium
A tough start in life
At ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Frank Joiner Died 8th July 1917, aged 22
Metz, France
A childhood in Quorn
Frank ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Jones Died 4th October 1917, aged 19
Broodseinde, Ypres, Belgium
William and Mary ...... cont.
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| | WW1 Roll of Honour - Edward Basil Langrish Died 3rd October 1918, aged 19
Grévillers, Bapaume, Second Battle of the Somme, ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Ernest Lee Died 13th November 1916, aged 22
Hebuterne, France
A hard start in life and moving ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Harold Lockwood Died 3rd October 1918, aged 20
Bellenglise, France
Early days
Sarah Wilders, ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Lovett Died 25th September 1916, aged 30
Gueudecourt, the Somme, France
An old Quorn ...... cont.
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Total: 167 artefacts returned over 4 pages