BORN HULL 05/11/1884. SON OF THOMAS JORDAN (1847-1907) & MARY JANE WRIGHT (1849-), OF 15 JOHNS TERRACE, WALCOTT STREET, HULL. A LABOURER. HE WAS WORKING FOR A COD LIVER OIL MERCHANTS, AT BALNAKET ROW, HULL, WHEN WAR WAS DECALRED. HE MARRIED WIFE GERTRUDE BRADY, AT HULL, IN 1906. THEY HAD A SON, ALSO CALLED RUBEN FREDERICK AND BOARDED AT 8 FLORA AVENUE, CARLTON STREET, HULL.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL IN JANUARY 1915. HE JOINED THE EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE 1ST WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 20/07/1916, AGED 31. DIED DURING A SUCCESSFUL RAID ON A GERMAN TRENCH. HE HAD NOT BEEN WITH THE BATTALION VERY LONG, BUT LONG ENOUGH TO PROVE HIMSELF A GOOD SOLDIER WHO WAS SADLY MISSED. HE LEFT A WIDOW AND TWO CHILDREN.
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, GERTRUDE. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 18TH SEPTEMBER 1916, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
