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.

Total: 368 artefacts returned over 74 pages

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