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.
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| | 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.
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 | | Quorn Home Guard – Certificate from the King
Eric George Worth joined the 'Quorn' Home Guard in 1941 and remained in the platoon until ...... cont.
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 | | John Donaghue - posted to Quorn in 1940
Introduction
John Donaghue was a freelance journalist and war veteran who, after ...... cont.
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 | | Winifred Ogston Greenaway of the ATS, Quorn in WW2
Extract from an Imperial War Museum Oral History Interview
Winifred Ogston ...... cont.
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| | 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.
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 | | US 82nd Airborne, 505th Division at Quorn
Officers of 82nd Airborne 505th, 3rd Battalion, Company I at Camp Quorn in 1944. ...... cont.
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 | | Sergeant William Humphrey Tucker, US 82nd Airborne, 505th PIR
Discovery of an ex-US 82nd Airborne, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Paratrooper’s ...... cont.
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 | | 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.
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 | | 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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 | | 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.
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 | | 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.
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| | Quorn D-Day 80th Commemoration - 2024
In 2023 Quorn Local History Group created a project fund to assist groups or individuals ...... cont.
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| | 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.
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 | | US 82nd Airborne 505th Division Company B
Company B of the US 82nd Airborne 505th Division taken at Fort Bragg, North Carolina in ...... cont.
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 | | Dedication of Lime Trees, 3rd May 1952
A poster advertising the dedication of an avenue of lime trees in Stafford Orchard, in ...... cont.
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 | | The WW2 ‘kids’ from Freehold Street, Quorn
Taken in the early 2000s (probably about 2007), this is a photograph of some of the ...... cont.
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| | Evacuated to Quorn 1941
In 1941, five year old Jackie Lee (then known as Bessie Pearce) and her sister Heather ...... cont.
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 | | Wilders/Stevenson/Kerslake photographs
The Wilders family came to Quorn from Walton on the Wolds and the first written record of ...... cont.
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 | | 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.
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| | 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.
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| | 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.
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| | 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.
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 | | 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.
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 | | 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.
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| | 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.
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 | | 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.
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 | | 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.
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 | | 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.
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 | | William Fantham, GCR Platelayer, Quorn, killed in WW1
Killed 8th May 1916 in France, aged 22
William George Fantham was the eldest of ...... cont.
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 | | Evacuees arrive in Quorn, 1st September 1939
Leicester Mercury
Friday 1st September 1939
How They Came To Leicestershire ...... cont.
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 | | VJ Day – A Quorn man’s memento
This framed memento of VJ Day is a representation of an American newspaper front page, ...... cont.
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 | | 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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 | | Dedication of Lime Trees, Quorn, May 1952
In May 1952 Quorn dedicated an avenue of lime trees in Stafford Orchard, planted in ...... cont.
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 | | Air raid shelter in Quorn
World War Two started in 1939 and continued for six years. During this time there was ...... cont.
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 | | Home Guard, including Quorn Platoon, 1942
This photograph of the Home Guard was taken in the garden of the Bulls Head (now the ...... cont.
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| | Quorn Parish Magazines – January to May 1940
This file contains five months of St Bartholomew's Church parish magazines. The copies ...... cont.
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| | Quorn Parish Magazines – July to December 1939
This file contains six months of St Bartholomew's Church parish magazines. The copies ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Charles Harold Adams
Died 13th May 1915, aged 29
Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Reginald John Backhouse
Died 9th August 1918, aged 31
Rosières, the Somme, France
A Canadian ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Harry Bagley
Died 31st May 1917, aged 29, France
George Bagley was born on Nursery Lane in ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Frank Bale
Died 11th August 1917, aged 34
Ypres, Belgium
Born in Quorn in 1883 and ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest Bancroft
Died Sunday 19th December 1915, aged 27
Ypres, Belgium
Early years
Ernest was ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Charles Ernest Barrett
Died 9th March 1917, aged 21
Mesopotamia (Iraq)
Marrying a Quorn girl
Charles ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Edward Arthur Benskin
Died 25th September 1916, aged 19
Battle of the Somme, Gueudecourt, France
Life ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Joseph Frank Brookes Birkin
Died 25th September 1915, aged 22
Ypres, Belgium
Life before the war
Frank ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Alfred Blackshaw
Died 29th June 1915, aged 17
Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey
The youngest soldier to ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest Harold Bonner
Died 9th September 1917, aged 20
Villers-Faucon, the Somme, France
Ernest was ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Henry Bowler
Died 29th September 1918, aged 33
Second Battle of the Somme, St Quentin, ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Percy Boyer
Died 3rd May 1918, aged 18
La Bassée Canal, France
Percy Boyer was born in ...... cont.
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Total: 368 artefacts returned over 8 pages
