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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.
 | | Letters from Quorn Prisoner of War Camp, February/March 1946
Quorn POW camp was based in the grounds of Quorn House and the entrance was on Wood Lane, ...... cont.
 | | | |  | | Letter from Quorn Prisoner of War Camp, March 1947
Quorn POW camp was based in the grounds of Quorn House and the entrance was on Wood Lane, ...... cont.
| | | |  | | Letter from Quorn Prisoner of War Camp, March 1946
Quorn POW camp was based in the grounds of Quorn House and the entrance was on Wood Lane, ...... cont.
| | | |  | | Letter from Quorn Prisoner of War Camp, Christmas 1945
Quorn POW camp was based in the grounds of Quorn House and the entrance was on Wood Lane, ...... cont.
| | | |  | | Charles Kirbell White and Frank Cuthbert White – WW1 Quorn casualties
Charles Kirbell White and his younger brother Frank Cuthbert White, lived with their ...... cont.
| | | |  | | Quorn Soldiers who died in WW1
2014 marks one hundred years since the start of the First World War. Quorn lost 79 of its ...... cont.
| | | |  | | Bernhard Wenke - a German prisoner of war in Quorn
Bernhard Wenke was a prisoner of war at Quorn POW Camp. His grandson Jürgen Schneider, ...... cont.
| | | |  | | American 82nd Airborne men revisit Quorn and Loughborough
Loughborough Echo - 7th June 1974
Thirty years after the invasion of Normandy, which ...... cont.
| | | | | | Quorn Grammar School - Pupils' patriotic spirit 1915
Loughborough Herald - 16th December 1915
The story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin has ...... cont.
| | | | | | Quorn’s Oldest Soldier - “Warrior” Burton
26th November 1948 – Loughborough Echo
Mr Joseph Burton (“Warrior Burton”), who was 86 ...... cont.
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Total: 192 artefacts returned over 20 pages
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