Information in this section relates to war and those people of Quorn who died in World War I or World War II.

We have strived to obtain appropriate permission to include the information below and gratefully acknowledge the help and support of people and groups who have assisted us.

The Memorial Garden is in the centre of the village and contains the village's War Memorial and various other commemorative plaques.

Photographs of the memorial garden are available - click here.

Thanks to Terry Cavanagh, University of Leicester, Dept of The History of Art, for the War Memorial information above.


Names on the War Memorial are reproduced below with kind permission from the Quorn Branch of the Royal British Legion.

Transcription was taken 4th November 2001

1939 to 1945

1914 to 1919

There are five war graves recorded by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in the Parish Church (Saint Bartholomew’s) and there are a further two in the Baptist Graveyard. The areas indicated on the individual entries can be identified on the appropriate churchyard maps (see the Village Graves section).

Name and rank	Captain Harold Wright
Date of death	14th September 1915
Age
Regiment	6th Battalion, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Parents
Cause of death	Died of Wounds
Churchyard area	Saint Bartholomew’s Area C
Name and rank	Gunner Richard Thompson
Date of death	19th February 1941
Age	27 years
Regiment	154 (The Leicestershire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, Service no 986656
Parents	Son of Richard & Gertrude Thompson, Quorn
Cause of death
Churchyard area	Saint Bartholomew’s - New cemetery
Name and rank	Gunner Reginald Stevenson
Date of death	2nd December 1941
Age	23 years
Regiment	425 Bty, 58 Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery, Service no 1621374
Parents	Son of Harry & Charlotte Stevenson of Quorn
Cause of death
Churchyard area	Saint Bartholomew’s - New cemetery
Name and rank	Private Charley Ottey
Date of death	30th July 1916
Age	18 years
Regiment	1st/7th Bn, Sherwood Foresters, service no 5258
Parents	Son of James & Elizabeth Ottey of Freehold St, Quorn
Cause of death	Died of Wounds
Churchyard area	Saint Bartholomew’s Area E
Name and rank	Private Stanley Herbert Mee
Date of death	14th August 1943
Age	31 years
Regiment	Royal Army Ordnance Corps, service no 10573293
Parents	Son of G W Mee & Gertrude Mee, husband of Enid Mee (all of Quorn)
Cause of death
Churchyard area	Saint Bartholomew’s - New cemetery
Name and rank	Pilot Officer H. J. Cook
Date of death	26th May 1940
Churchyard area	Baptist Churchyard, Area A38
Name and rank	An airman of the 1939-1945 War. Royal Air Force
Date of death	27th May 1940
Churchyard area	Baptist Churchyard, Area A72a

Nancy Dexter who carried out a survey of the Baptist Graveyard in 1981, tells the following story:

In 1940 the body of an airman, identified by an article of clothing as believed to be that of Sergeant Alfred Hubert Payne, RAF, killed in action, was interred in the grave of Sgt. Payne's father, Arthur Henry Payne (Baptist Churchyard, stone A72). It was later established that Sgt. Payne had been killed in action, but had been buried by the Germans in a war cemetery in Northern France. Sgt. Payne's mother would not accept this, and still clung to the belief that the airman buried at Quorn was her son Hubert.

It was not until after 1970, when Mrs Payne died at the age of 100, that the matter was re-opened. There were long negotiations with the War Office, and ultimately, in 1981, an official War Office gravestone, 'to an Unknown Airman', was erected a yard or so in front of the stone of Sgt. Payne's parents.