Editing Quorn, Leicestershire (section)

==World Wars==
[[File:Quorn War Memorial, March 2019.jpg|left|thumb|upright|War memorial and gardens by Quorn Cross]]
96 men from Quorn lost their lives in the two World Wars (77 in [[World War I]] and 19 in [[World War II]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.quorndon-mag.org.uk/british_legion/memorials.html |title=The Royal British Legion - Quorn Memorials |access-date=8 November 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091026151258/http://www.quorndon-mag.org.uk/british_legion/memorials.html |archive-date=26 October 2009 }}</ref> A [[cenotaph]] in Quorn's Memorial Gardens honours these men.

Quorn Camp was established on the grounds of Quorn House during World War II. It was used as a [[Prisoner of war|PoW]] camp<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/content/publications/docs/prisoner-of-war-camps.pdf|title=English Heritage|website=English-heritage.org.uk|access-date=14 December 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Rogers |first=Simon |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/nov/08/prisoner-of-war-camps-uk |title=Every prisoner of war camp in the UK mapped and listed |newspaper=The Guardian |date=2010-11-08 |access-date=2013-07-26}}</ref> and was also host to a number of the [[United States Army]] [[82nd Airborne Division (United States)|82nd Airborne Division]]'s [[505th Parachute Infantry Regiment]].<ref name="quornmuseum1">{{cite web |url=http://www.quornmuseum.com/display.php?id=497 |title=US 82nd Airborne Division - The Quorn Village On-line Museum |publisher=Quornmuseum.com |access-date=2013-07-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715140619/http://www.quornmuseum.com/display.php?id=497 |archive-date=15 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> These paratroopers were involved in liberating the town of [[Sainte-Mère-Église]], in [[Normandy]], [[France]], on the morning of [[D-Day]] and included [[John Steele (paratrooper)|Pvt. John Marvin Steele]] who famously became caught on the town's church spire.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.505rct.org/album2/steele_j.asp |title=See photographs |publisher=505rct.org |access-date=2013-07-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222152859/http://www.505rct.org/album2/steele_j.asp |archive-date=22 February 2014 }}</ref> This incident is today commemorated with a dummy paratrooper and parachute attached to the church in Sainte-Mère-Église.

A number of American veterans come back to Quorn, particularly every tenth anniversary of the D-Day landings, to remember their time in Quorn and their comrades who did not return.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/revisiting-quorn/ |title=Revisiting Quorn |publisher=CBS News |date=2007-12-05 |access-date=2013-07-26}}</ref>

[[File:Quorndon US WWII Memorial Plaque.jpg|right|thumb|US war memorial plaque in Memorial Gardens]]

There is a plaque commemorating the lost US servicemen in Quorn's Memorial Gardens, upon which a poppy wreath is placed each year on [[Remembrance Sunday]]. There is also an avenue of lime trees in Stafford Orchard (the village park) in remembrance of those American soldiers that died, together with a plaque.<ref name="quornmuseum1"/>