From CWGC and Ancestry:
Private. Service No: 2302. Age: 18. Regiment/Service: London Regiment (London Scottish), 14th Bn. Son of George Silas JORDAN (1841 - 1931) and Cecilia Anetta JORDAN (nee JONES) (1865 - 1957) of 21 Blackheath Rise, Lewisham, London.
From The Roll of Honour, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I:
JORDAN, GEORGE GRAEME, Private, No. 2302, 1/14th Battalion (London Scottish) The London Regiment (T.F.), 2nd son of George Silas Jordan, of 21, Blackheath Rise, Lewisham, Director of Edwards & Sons, Ltd., Dairy Farmers and Dairymen, by his wife, Cecilia Annetta, daughter of Theodore Brooke Jones, of Harrogate; born Lewisham, S.E., 10 June, 1896; educated Colf's Grammar School, Lewisham Hill; was in business with Messrs. Yencken & Co., Tower Hill, Australian Merchants; joined the 2nd Battalion London Scottish, with his elder brother, 20 Aug. 1914; transferred to the 1st Battalion and left for France, 16 Sept. 1914, and died a prisoner of war in the Military Hospital, Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen), 20 Nov. following, of wounds received in the first charge of the London Scottish at Messines on 1 Nov. Buried, Aix-la-Chapelle; unmarried.
Private. Service No: 2302. Age: 18. Regiment/Service: London Regiment (London Scottish), 14th Bn. Son of George Silas JORDAN (1841 - 1931) and Cecilia Anetta JORDAN (nee JONES) (1865 - 1957) of 21 Blackheath Rise, Lewisham, London.
From The Roll of Honour, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I:
JORDAN, GEORGE GRAEME, Private, No. 2302, 1/14th Battalion (London Scottish) The London Regiment (T.F.), 2nd son of George Silas Jordan, of 21, Blackheath Rise, Lewisham, Director of Edwards & Sons, Ltd., Dairy Farmers and Dairymen, by his wife, Cecilia Annetta, daughter of Theodore Brooke Jones, of Harrogate; born Lewisham, S.E., 10 June, 1896; educated Colf's Grammar School, Lewisham Hill; was in business with Messrs. Yencken & Co., Tower Hill, Australian Merchants; joined the 2nd Battalion London Scottish, with his elder brother, 20 Aug. 1914; transferred to the 1st Battalion and left for France, 16 Sept. 1914, and died a prisoner of war in the Military Hospital, Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen), 20 Nov. following, of wounds received in the first charge of the London Scottish at Messines on 1 Nov. Buried, Aix-la-Chapelle; unmarried.
From CWGC and Ancestry:
Private. Service No: 2302. Age: 18. Regiment/Service: London Regiment (London Scottish), 14th Bn. Son of George Silas JORDAN (1841 - 1931) and Cecilia Anetta JORDAN (nee JONES) (1865 - 1957) of 21 Blackheath Rise, Lewisham, London.
From The Roll of Honour, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I:
JORDAN, GEORGE GRAEME, Private, No. 2302, 1/14th Battalion (London Scottish) The London Regiment (T.F.), 2nd son of George Silas Jordan, of 21, Blackheath Rise, Lewisham, Director of Edwards & Sons, Ltd., Dairy Farmers and Dairymen, by his wife, Cecilia Annetta, daughter of Theodore Brooke Jones, of Harrogate; born Lewisham, S.E., 10 June, 1896; educated Colf's Grammar School, Lewisham Hill; was in business with Messrs. Yencken & Co., Tower Hill, Australian Merchants; joined the 2nd Battalion London Scottish, with his elder brother, 20 Aug. 1914; transferred to the 1st Battalion and left for France, 16 Sept. 1914, and died a prisoner of war in the Military Hospital, Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen), 20 Nov. following, of wounds received in the first charge of the London Scottish at Messines on 1 Nov. Buried, Aix-la-Chapelle; unmarried.
Private. Service No: 2302. Age: 18. Regiment/Service: London Regiment (London Scottish), 14th Bn. Son of George Silas JORDAN (1841 - 1931) and Cecilia Anetta JORDAN (nee JONES) (1865 - 1957) of 21 Blackheath Rise, Lewisham, London.
From The Roll of Honour, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I:
JORDAN, GEORGE GRAEME, Private, No. 2302, 1/14th Battalion (London Scottish) The London Regiment (T.F.), 2nd son of George Silas Jordan, of 21, Blackheath Rise, Lewisham, Director of Edwards & Sons, Ltd., Dairy Farmers and Dairymen, by his wife, Cecilia Annetta, daughter of Theodore Brooke Jones, of Harrogate; born Lewisham, S.E., 10 June, 1896; educated Colf's Grammar School, Lewisham Hill; was in business with Messrs. Yencken & Co., Tower Hill, Australian Merchants; joined the 2nd Battalion London Scottish, with his elder brother, 20 Aug. 1914; transferred to the 1st Battalion and left for France, 16 Sept. 1914, and died a prisoner of war in the Military Hospital, Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen), 20 Nov. following, of wounds received in the first charge of the London Scottish at Messines on 1 Nov. Buried, Aix-la-Chapelle; unmarried.
Inscription
2302 Private
G. G. JORDAN
London Scottish
20th November 1914 Age 18
With Christ
which is very far better
Phil. 1. 23
Gravesite Details
Inscribed white stone British military headstone inscribed with the London Scottish regimental crest.
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