Benjamin Stevens Jordan

Forenames

Benjamin Stevens AWMM

Surname

Jordan AWMM

Service number

• 6066 AWMM
• 6/1109 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

17 Dec 1883 AWMM

Address before enlistment

• Pre 16 Jan 1902 AWMM Church Street, North Rangiora, New Zealand AWMM
• Pre 14 Aug 1914 AWMM Rangiora, New Zealand AWMM
• Unknown AWMM Unknown address AWMM

Next of kin

• Frederick William S. Jordan (father), Rangiora, New Zealand AWMM
• Fred W.S. Jordan, care of Perrott, Holcroft, and Co., Rangiora, New Zealand AWMM
• Mrs Elsie C. Jordan (wife), Glenmore, Omihi, North Canterbury, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

• Pre 16 Oct 1914 AWMM Single AWMM
• Pre 12 Feb 1916 AWMM Single AWMM
• Unknown AWMM Married AWMM

War

• South African War, 1899-1902 AWMM
• World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
• 1914-1916 AWMM Egypt AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

• 6066 AWMM
• 6/1109 AWMM

Military service

• Rangiora Rifles 1900 AWMM
• 13th (North Canterbury and Westland) Regiment AWMM

Medals and Awards

• Queen's South Africa Medal (Cape Colony, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 clasps) AWMM
• 1914-1915 Star AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM

Enlistment

• South Africa 16 Jan 1902 AWMM
  Age  19 AWMM
  Clerk AWMM
• WW1 14 Aug 1914 AWMM
  Age  30 AWMM
  Registered Accountant/Civilian AWMM
• WW1 Accountant/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

• South Africa 08 Feb 1902 AWMM
  Cornwall AWMM Vessel was Waitemata AWMM Private AWMM Headquarters Staff AWMM 2nd Reinforcements AWMM
• WW1 16 Oct 1914-03 Dec 1914 AWMM
  HMNZT 11 AWMM Vessel was Cornwall AWMM Private AWMM 8th New Zealand Mounted Rifles, South Island Regiment, H Squadron AWMM New Zealand Mounted Rifles AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM
• WW1 12 Feb 1916-17 Mar 1916 AWMM
  HMNZT 45 AWMM Vessel was Athenic AWMM Major/Military AWMM Canterbury Infantry Battalion AWMM New Zealand Mounted Rifles, 8th Contingent AWMM
  3rd Embarkation AWMM

Medical notes

• Height, Unknown Period AWMM
  6 foot AWMM
• Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
  180 pounds AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  1915 admitted to hospital with enteritis AWMM
• Medical, Unknown Period AWMM
  Chronic ear deafness, evacuated for an operation and convalescence in New Zealand AWMM
• Killed in Air Accident, Cause of Death AWMM
  Killed in an aircraft accident AWMM

Last rank

• South Africa Private AWMM
  New Zealand Mounted Rifles, 8th Contingent AWMM
• WW1 Major/Military AWMM
  Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion AWMM

Son of Mr Frederick William S. and Ellen Jordan, of Rangiora; husband of Elsie C. Jordan, of 136 Bishop St., St. Albans, Christchurch.

Major Jordan had served in the Boer War and at the time of his death was the Second in Command of the New Zealand Command Depot at Codford.

Accidentally killed in an aeroplane accident.

Father was named Frederick William Jordan. AWMM

Death

24 May 1918 AWMM
Age  34 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Air Accident AWMM

Cemetery

• Codford (St Mary) New Churchyard, Wiltshire, England AWMM 130 AWMM
• St Marys Churchyard Uk AWMM

Obituary

Obituary: The Star, 30 May 1918 AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
  http://www.cwgc.org
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20524568
  Further Reference
• Other military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R18054887
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-416658.html
  Further Reference
• New Zealand History online. New Zealand in the South (Boer) War
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/south-african-boer-war/introduction
  Further Reference

References

• Information kindly provided by family
• Information kindly provided by family
• Christchurch Star
• Information kindly provided by family
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 379
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  23: 1
• Stowers, R. (1992). Kiwi versus Boer : the First New Zealand Mounted Rifles in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902. Hamilton, N.Z.: R. Stowers.
• Stowers, R. (2002). Rough Riders at War: history of New Zealand's involvement in the Anglo-Boer war 1899-1902 and information on all members of the ten New Zealand contingents. Author: Hamilton, N.Z.
• Christchurch Star
  Obituary: The Star, 30 May 1918
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 5: Includes portrait