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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.
 | | Quorn Home Guard, Loughborough Road, 1942
The older photograph was taken in October 1942. The three men belong to Quorn Home Guard ...... cont.
 | | | |  | | Quorn Home Guard 1942
The Home Guard were originally known as the LDV (Local Defence Volunteers) and were ...... cont.
| | | |  | | Quorn and the Spanish flu epidemic
The worldwide Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 hit the UK in waves and it is estimated that ...... cont.
| | | |  | | Quorn Parish Magazines Quarter 4, October to December, 1918
This file contains three months of St Bartholomew's Church parish magazines. They were ...... cont.
| | | | | | Quorn Parish Magazines Quarter 3, July to September, 1918
This file contains three months of St Bartholomew's Church parish magazines. They were ...... cont.
| | | | | | Quorn Parish Magazines Quarter 2, April to June, 1918
This file contains three months of St Bartholomew's Church parish magazines. They were ...... cont.
| | | | | | Quorn Parish Magazines Quarter 1, January to March, 1918
This file contains three months of St Bartholomew's Church parish magazines. They were ...... cont.
| | | | | | Quorn Parish Magazines Quarter 4, October to December, 1917
This file contains three months of St Bartholomew's Church parish magazines. They were ...... cont.
| | | | | | Quorn Parish Magazines Quarter 3, July to September, 1917
This file contains three months of St Bartholomew's Church parish magazines. They were ...... cont.
| | | | | | Quorn Parish Magazines Quarter 2, April to June, 1917
This file contains three months of St Bartholomew's Church parish magazines. They were ...... cont.
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Total: 247 artefacts returned over 25 pages
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