BORN HULL 1886. SON OF FREDERICK WILLIAM JORDAN (1863-1929) & CLARA ANN RANDS, OF 6, JOHN’S SQUARE, NEW GEORGE STREET, HULL AND AT 5, PERSEVERANCE TERRACE, PROVIDENCE ROW. HE MARRIED AT HULL, IN 1908. WORKED AS A BLACKSMITH STRIKER, LIVING WITH HIS WIFE LILY, AT 1, MOUNT TERRACE, HODGSON STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). THEY HAD FOUR CHILDREN.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. JOINING THE 6TH EAST YORKSHIRE PIONEERS. HE LEFT FOR GALLIPOLI ON 14TH JULY 1915. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 09/08/1915, AGED 29. ALFRED WAS REPORTED MISSING AND THEN KILLED IN ACTION, ON 09/08/1915, AT GALLIPOLI, AGED 29.
HE IS REMEMBERED ON ST MATTHEWS CHURCH ROH, BOULEVARD, HULL.
HIS PHOTOGRAPH APPEARS IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 18TH NOVEMBER 1915. HIS DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPH WERE ALSO REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 23RD MAY 1916. *
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WENT TO HIS WIDOW, LILY, THREE DAUGHTERS, IVY, RUBY AND DOROTHY AND SON, ALFRED GEORGE JORDAN. SHE WAS AWARDED A WEEKLY PENSION, OF 22 SHILLINGS AND SIXPENCE, ON 01/04/1916. SHE SADLY DIED SOON AFTER. HIS PENSION LATER WENT TO THE GUARDIANS OF HIS CHILDREN, MRS NELLIE WARD, AND MRS EDITH HARRISON, SECRETARY OF THE SEAMANS ORPHANAGE, NEWLANDS, HULL.
