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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 Home Guard Final Bulletin no 39, 1st December 1944
On 14th May 1940, Anthony Eden, the Secretary for War created the Local Defence ...... cont.
 | | | | | | Quorn Home Guard Bulletin no 18, June 1942, Second Anniversary
On 14th May 1940, Anthony Eden, the Secretary for War created the Local Defence ...... cont.
| | | |  | | Quorn Home Guard – Certificate from the King
Eric George Worth joined the 'Quorn' Home Guard in 1941 and remained in the platoon until ...... cont.
| | | |  | | John Donaghue - posted to Quorn in 1940
Introduction
John Donaghue was a freelance journalist and war veteran who, after ...... cont.
| | | |  | | Winifred Ogston Greenaway of the ATS, Quorn in WW2
Extract from an Imperial War Museum Oral History Interview
Winifred Ogston ...... cont.
| | | | | | The War Story of Edith Evelyn Guyver, née Binsley
Edith Evelyn Guyver née Binsley 1921-2001, was a ‘listener’ at Beaumanor Hall Y Station ...... cont.
| | | |  | | US 82nd Airborne, 505th Division at Quorn
Officers of 82nd Airborne 505th, 3rd Battalion, Company I at Camp Quorn in 1944. ...... cont.
| | | |  | | 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.
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Total: 368 artefacts returned over 37 pages
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