JORDAN, Percy Maxwell
| Service Number: | 2042 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 October 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia, 16 December 1889 |
| Home Town: | Muswellbrook, Muswellbrook, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Cooks Hill Superior Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Randwick Military Hospital, New South Wales, Australia, 21 July 1939, aged 49 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW |
| Memorials: | Cook's Hill Superior Public School |
World War 1 Service
| 8 Oct 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2042, 1st Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 15 Jan 1916: | Involvement Private, 2042, 1st Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: RMS Osterley embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 15 Jan 1916: | Embarked Private, 2042, 1st Light Horse Regiment, RMS Osterley, Sydney | |
| 27 Oct 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Driver, 2042, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade , 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
86 years ago today, on the Saturday afternoon of the 22nd July 1939, Driver Percy Maxwell Jordan, 3rd Australian Field Artillery Brigade (Reg No-2042), farmer from Muswellbrook, New South Wales and 30 Hopkins Street, The Junction (Merewether), N.S.W. (1928) and 11 Morgan Street, Adamstown, N.S.W., father of three?, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 49.
Mr. Jordan had died on the 21st July 1939 at the Randwick Military Hospital, N.S.W.
Born at Tamworth, New South Wales on the 16th December 1889 to Thomas George and Elizabeth Jordan; husband of Irene Outram Jordan nee Clegg, married 1919, East Maitland, N.S.W., died 21.6.1958, Hamilton, N.S.W., age 61, 19 years a widow, sleeping here, Percy enlisted on the 8th October 1915 with the 1st Australian Light Horse Regiment at Armidale, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT RMS Osterley on the 15th January 1916.
Granted leave to England from 27.9.1917 to 11.10.1917.
Admitted to hospital 1.3.1918 (influenza).
Invalided to England and admitted to hospital 28.9.1918 (nephritis).
Commenced return to Australia 16.6.1919.
Percy arrived home invalided on the 4th August 1919, not being discharged until the 27th December 1919.
Mr. Jordan’s name has been inscribed on the Cooks Hill Superior Public School Roll of Honour, East Maitland Soldiers' Memorial as JORDON and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. Name not inscribed on the Muswellbrook Soldiers' Memorial.
I have placed poppies at Percy’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Service record states Died after Discharge, 21/7/1939.
Officially commemorated 19.10.1939 – https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html... as JORDON.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
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Lest We Forget.
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