3rd Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (British Army)
Date Of Birth:
12/03/1893
Died:
21/08/1915 (Killed in Action)
Age:
22
Summary
Percy Thomas Jordan was the only son of the Rev Thomas Jordan and Marianne G C Jordan. Percy Jordan was born on 12th March 1893 in Magherafelt. Rev Thomas Jordan was the Rector of Magherafelt. They lived at the Rectory in Magherafelt. He was educated at St. Columba's College and Trinity College, Dublin. Percy offered himself for Army service on the outbreak of the war and received his commission in November 1914. Lieutenant Percy Thomas Jordan was with the 3rd Battalion of the Inniskilling Fusiliers, attached to the 1st Battalion, when he was killed in action at the Dardanelles on 21st August, 1915.
Further Information
Percy Thomas Jordan was the only son of the Rev Thomas Jordan and Marianne G C Jordan.
In 1884 Rev Thomas Jordan had written a book entitled ‘The Stoic Moralists and the Christians’.
Percy Jordan was born on 12th March 1893 in Magherafelt.
Rev Thomas Jordan was the Rector of Magherafelt. They lived at the Rectory in Magherafelt.
Family: Thomas Jordan. Marianne G C Jordan, Maria Percy Jordan (born about 1890, Dublin), Percy Thomas Jordan (born about 1893, Magherafelt)
The 1901 census lists Percy Thomas as age 8 living with the family at house 1 in Glebe, Magherafelt, County Londonderry. This was the Rectory.
He was educated at St. Columba's College and Trinity College, Dublin.
The 1911 census lists Percy Thomas as age 18 living at house 12.1 in Taylor’s Grange, Whitechurch, Dublin. He was boarding at St. Columba's College in Whitechurch.
Percy offered himself for Army service on the outbreak of the war and received his commission in November 1914.
Lieutenant Percy Thomas Jordan was with the 3rd Battalion of the Inniskilling Fusiliers, attached to the 1st Battalion, when he was killed in action at the Dardanelles on 21st August, 1915. He was 22 years old.
From the Belfast Newsletter dated 1st September 1915: Second Lieutenant Percy T Jordan
The death has been announced of Second Lieutenant Percy T Jordan, 1st Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, who was killed in action at the Dardanelles on 21st August. Lieutenant Jordan, who was the only son of the late Rev Dr Jordan, rector of Magherafelt, was educated at St. Columba's College, Rathfarnham, and Trinity College, Dublin. He had been in the University Officer Training Corps, and received his commission shortly after the outbreak of war.
From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 4th September 1915:
JORDAN – Killed in action at the Dardanelles, 21st August, second Lieutenant Percy Thomas Jordan, 1st Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, only son of the late Rev Dr Jordan, rector of Magherafelt, aged 22 years.
From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 11th September 1915: Lieutenant Percy T Jordan
The parishioners of Altedesert Parish heard with deep regret of the death of Lieutenant Percy T Jordan, who was killed in action at the Dardanelles on 21st August, and who was the only son of the late Rev Dr Jordan, Rector of Magherafelt. Those who had the privilege of knowing him intimately, have experienced great sorrow, for to know him was to love him. His gentle disposition and unassuming ways endeared him to all. When the war broke out Lieutenant Jordan was a student at Trinity College and an enthusiastic member of the Officers’ Training Corps. He worked zealously and assiduously to influence the young men of the parish and neighbourhood to enlist, and nobly offered himself for King and country, finally giving up his life for us that we mat live peacefully at home. ‘Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends.’ The parishioners offer their respectful and loving sympathy to Rev D and Mrs Wilson (his only sister), Rev W A B and Mrs Jackson, and his other relatives, in their hour of great trial. They have the comfort of knowing he was prepared to go, and is now enjoying Eternal Rest.
‘Still for him high service waits, tho’ the earth’s last fight is fought;
God did not give that martial soul to end at last in nought
That steadfast soldier heart was not for this brief life alone;
‘Tis a soldier he will stand before the Great White Throne.’
From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 4th December 1915:
‘Irish Life’ for 26th November contains another illustrated supplement with portraits of Irishmen who have fallen. Amongst those we notice are Lieutenant Jordan (son of the late Rev Dr Jordan, Magherafelt), Viscount Stewart (son of the Earl of Castlestewart) and Captain A Moutray Read, V.C. (nephew of Mrs Hassard, Desertcreat).
Lieutenant Percy Thomas Jordan has no known grave and is commemorated on Helles Memorial in Gallipoli.
Percy Thomas Jordan is commemorated on the War Memorial on St Columba's College, Dublin.
Percy Thomas Jordan is commemorated on Panel 3 in Trinity College Reading Rooms in Dublin
The CWGC record Lieutenant Percy Thomas Jordan as the son of Canon Jordan, D.D. (Rector of Magherafelt, Co. Derry).
