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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.
| | Sergeant William Humphrey Tucker, US 82nd Airborne, 505th PIR Discovery of an ex-US 82nd Airborne, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Paratrooper’s ...... cont.
| | | | | | Discovery of a WW2 US 82nd Airborne ID tag in Quorn A US Army Identification Plate for Robert M Robinson found in a garden Quorn
In ...... cont.
| | | | | | Letter from a Quorn Prisoner of War, 1st December 1947 Early in 1943, the Quorn House stable block and several acres of park land were ...... cont.
| | | | | | Quorn House Civil Defence Convalescent Home, WW2 In World War Two Quorn House was loaned to be used as a Civil Defence convalescent home. ...... cont.
| | | | | | A letter from Quorn Parish Council regarding the US 82nd Airborne Division Below is a letter from the Quorn Parish Council, dated 20th September 1944 and addressed ...... cont.
| | | | | | Quorn D-Day 80th Commemoration - 2024 In 2023 Quorn Local History Group created a project fund to assist groups or individuals ...... cont.
| | | | | | A Tribute to the American Paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne, 3rd May 1952 Quorn Local History Group encourage members to take on projects and to research areas of ...... cont.
| | | | | | US 82nd Airborne 505th Division Company B Company B of the US 82nd Airborne 505th Division taken at Fort Bragg, North Carolina in ...... cont.
| | | | | | Dedication of Lime Trees, 3rd May 1952 A poster advertising the dedication of an avenue of lime trees in Stafford Orchard, in ...... cont.
| | | | | | The WW2 ‘kids’ from Freehold Street, Quorn Taken in the early 2000s (probably about 2007), this is a photograph of some of the ...... cont.
| | | | Total: 361 artefacts returned over 37 pages
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