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.

		Donald Towell - home on leave 1942 Loughborough Echo - 27th March 1942 Chief Petty Officer Donald Towell, who is at home ...... cont.
		Soldiers fined for taking army truck - 1953 Loughborough Monitor - 26th June 1953 Two Quorn soldiers who drove away an Army truck ...... cont.
		Funeral of George Draper - 1925 Loughborough Monitor and Herald - 3rd December 1925 On Friday Mr George Draper, who ...... cont.
		George Holmes George Holmes was born in Quorn in 1896, the son of George and Georgina Holmes. He was ...... cont.
		Captain Harold Wright Harold Wright was a Captain in the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, 6th Battalion. He was ...... cont.
		William John Steer, 1886 to 1915 William Steer (Leicestershire Yeomanry, Trooper 2144), was killed in action at ...... cont.
		A German prisoner of war settles in the Quorn area Joachim Claaus Fritz Berger was a German U-Boat sailor, who was captured in World War II ...... cont.
		Quorn Warship Week - 1942 Loughborough Echo - 20th February 1942 A group taken at the formal opening of Quorn ...... cont.
		Brothers meet on returning troop ship in 1945 - Charlie and Danny Smith from Barrow Road This press cutting was supplied by Elaine Woodhams whose father, Edwin Smith (always ...... cont.
		Quorn House during WW2 This photograph was donated by Sheila Brewer who was a nurse at Quorn House when it was a ...... cont.

Total: 169 artefacts returned over 17 pages

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