Tuesday 16th July 2024  

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.
		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.

Total: 360 artefacts returned over 8 pages

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