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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.
 | | 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.
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Total: 360 artefacts returned over 15 pages
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