Friday 13th February 2026  

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.
		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.
		Evacuated to Quorn 1941 In 1941, five year old Jackie Lee (then known as Bessie Pearce) and her sister Heather ...... cont.
		Wilders/Stevenson/Kerslake photographs The Wilders family came to Quorn from Walton on the Wolds and the first written record of ...... cont.
		Thomas Delarue from Quorn, 1791 to 1878 Behind so many names in old Quorn records lay stories that have been lost in the passage ...... cont.
		German magazine, Quorn POW Camp, edition 1, early August 1947 During 2021 three magazines turned up on a flea market stall in Germany which were ...... cont.
		German magazine, Quorn POW Camp, edition 2, late August 1947 During 2021 three magazines turned up on a flea market stall in Germany which were ...... cont.
		German magazine, Quorn POW Camp, edition 3, early September 1947 During 2021 three magazines turned up on a flea market stall in Germany which were ...... cont.
		Hilda and Mary Harper, Leicester Road, 27th May 1941 Looking down Leicester Road from outside no 14, which is roughly where the entrance to ...... cont.
		Card from Quorn POW Camp to Germany, 17th September 1945 Quorn POW camp was based in the grounds of Quorn House, with the entrance on Wood Lane, ...... cont.
		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.
		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.
		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.
		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.
		William Fantham, GCR Platelayer, Quorn, killed in WW1 Killed 8th May 1916 in France, aged 22 William George Fantham was the eldest of ...... cont.
		Evacuees arrive in Quorn, 1st September 1939 Leicester Mercury Friday 1st September 1939 How They Came To Leicestershire ...... cont.
		VJ Day – A Quorn man’s memento This framed memento of VJ Day is a representation of an American newspaper front page, ...... cont.
		Quorn Camp 1944 - US 82nd Airborne Division Members of the US 82nd Airborne Division, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 2nd Platoon ...... cont.
		Dedication of Lime Trees, Quorn, May 1952 In May 1952 Quorn dedicated an avenue of lime trees in Stafford Orchard, planted in ...... cont.
		Air raid shelter in Quorn World War Two started in 1939 and continued for six years. During this time there was ...... cont.
		Home Guard, including Quorn Platoon, 1942 This photograph of the Home Guard was taken in the garden of the Bulls Head (now the ...... cont.
		Quorn Parish Magazines – January to May 1940 This file contains five months of St Bartholomew's Church parish magazines. The copies ...... cont.
		Quorn Parish Magazines – July to December 1939 This file contains six months of St Bartholomew's Church parish magazines. The copies ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Charles Harold Adams Died 13th May 1915, aged 29 Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Reginald John Backhouse Died 9th August 1918, aged 31 Rosières, the Somme, France A Canadian ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Harry Bagley Died 31st May 1917, aged 29, France George Bagley was born on Nursery Lane in ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Frank Bale Died 11th August 1917, aged 34 Ypres, Belgium Born in Quorn in 1883 and ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest Bancroft Died Sunday 19th December 1915, aged 27 Ypres, Belgium Early years Ernest was ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Charles Ernest Barrett Died 9th March 1917, aged 21 Mesopotamia (Iraq) Marrying a Quorn girl Charles ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Edward Arthur Benskin Died 25th September 1916, aged 19 Battle of the Somme, Gueudecourt, France Life ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Joseph Frank Brookes Birkin Died 25th September 1915, aged 22 Ypres, Belgium Life before the war Frank ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Alfred Blackshaw Died 29th June 1915, aged 17 Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey The youngest soldier to ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest Harold Bonner Died 9th September 1917, aged 20 Villers-Faucon, the Somme, France Ernest was ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Henry Bowler Died 29th September 1918, aged 33 Second Battle of the Somme, St Quentin, ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Percy Boyer Died 3rd May 1918, aged 18 La Bassée Canal, France Percy Boyer was born in ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Louis Brewin Died 14th July 1917, aged 23 St Leger, the Somme, France Before the ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Walter Brewin Died 10th August 1918, aged 28 France A difficult start in life Walter was ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Edwin Brown Died 13th August 1915, aged 27 Hooge, Belgium George was one of five children. ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Henry Burton Died 27th April 1917, aged 22 Loos, France Prior to the war Albert Burton was ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John (Jack) Cawrey Died 30th October 1917, aged 40 Passchendaele, Belgium Growing up in ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Cecil Chapman Died 21st April 1915, aged 22 Ypres, Belgium Early years Although Chapman is ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Hilary Calvert Clarke Died 31st August 1918, aged 22 Bailleul, France Hilary Calvert Clarke was born ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Henry Clay Died 27th April 1915, aged 20 Vlamertinghe, Belgium Before the war William ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John James Collington Died 28th January 1915, aged 28 Estaires, Northern France Pre-war days John ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Walter Daft Died 20th September 1915, aged 29 Ypres, Belgium Walter Daft was the youngest ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - James William Dockray Died 20th July 1918, aged 19 France The Dockray family moved to Quorn from ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Percy Facer Died 9th April 1918, aged 18 Loos, France A well-known family in Quorn Facer ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Joseph Fewkes Died 26th September 1916, aged 48 The Somme, France A very old Quorn ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Cox Flanders Died 18th May 1916, aged 20 Mesopotamia, Iraq Family background William Cox ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John (Jack) Peer Flanders Died 25th September 1916, aged 21 Battle of the Somme, Gueudecourt, ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Walter Fletcher Died 25th September 1918, aged 34 Sorel-le-Grand, the Somme, France Early ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Edward Gamble Died 16th August 1917, aged 22 Ypres, Belgium Gamble is a well-known name in ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Walter Albert Gartshore Died 1st September 1916, aged 24 Bienvillers, France Family history George ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest Grant Died 21st March 1918, aged 31 Bapaume, France Early years The Grant family ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Henry Hackett Died 18th September 1918, aged 21 Battle of Épehy, the Somme, France Early ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Hallam Died 22nd October 1914, aged 29 Rue du Bois, France The first to die The ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Matthew Henry Hickling Died 13th May 1915, aged 21 Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - James Martin Hollingsworth Died 5th October 1916, aged 28 The Somme, France James was born in Quorn in ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - James Howlett Died 5th October 1918, aged 33 Bellenglise, France Family history James ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Harry Hubbard Died 12th April 1916, aged 32 Poperinge, Belgium Before the war Henry ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Hudson Died 3rd October 1918, aged 29 Bellenglise, France Early years William was ...... cont.
		WW1 Roll of Honour - James Hutton Died 6th October 1917, aged 25 France James Hutton was born in Quorn and was ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Thomas Hutton Died 26th September 1917, aged 35 Zonnebeke, Belgium Thomas Hutton was the ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John Newton Jacques Died 27th September 1917, aged 25 Zonnebeke, Belgium A tough start in life At ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Frank Joiner Died 8th July 1917, aged 22 Metz, France A childhood in Quorn Frank ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Jones Died 4th October 1917, aged 19 Broodseinde, Ypres, Belgium William and Mary ...... cont.
		WW1 Roll of Honour - Edward Basil Langrish Died 3rd October 1918, aged 19 Grévillers, Bapaume, Second Battle of the Somme, ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Ernest Lee Died 13th November 1916, aged 22 Hebuterne, France A hard start in life and moving ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Harold Lockwood Died 3rd October 1918, aged 20 Bellenglise, France Early days Sarah Wilders, ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Lovett Died 25th September 1916, aged 30 Gueudecourt, the Somme, France An old Quorn ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John Jesson Lucas Died 13th May 1915, aged 20 Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Samuel William Martin Died 28th May 1915, aged 25 North West of Festubert, Pas de Calais, France Early ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Daniel and William Moore Died 13th May 1915, aged 25 and 23 Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Hubert Mason Moore Died 5th September 1918, aged 24 Gavrelle, Arras, France The Moore family on ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Charley Ottey Died 30th July 1916, aged 18 Wounded in France, died in a military hospital in ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Gabriel King Peirce Died 26th October 1914, aged 39 Festubert, Western Front, France William ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John Henry Pick 25th September 1917, aged 26 Marquise Quarry, France Roots in ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Pollard Died 21st June 1917, aged 23 Lens, France Early years The Pollard family ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Edward Rennocks Died 3rd October 1918, aged 22 St Quentin, France Roots in Quorn The Rennocks ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Victor Rennocks Died 23rd April 1916, aged 26 Hinckley Hospital Family background The ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Bertie James Shenton Died 3rd August 1916, aged 19 Ovillers near Albert, France Early years Bertie ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Jack Shephard Died 18th July 1917, aged 43 Mesopotamia, Iraq Growing up in Quorn The 1881 ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Fred Squires Died 3rd December 1915, aged 32 Lemnos Island, Greece Frederick Charles ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William John Steer Died 13th May 1915, aged 28 Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Silas Stevenson Died 15th September 1916, aged 28 The Somme, France Silas Stevenson was born ...... cont.

Total: 368 artefacts returned over 4 pages

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