From the Burnt Records, Peter Inns & Kay Collins

His father lived at Northampton and Harold was born at Earls Barton but he was living at 9 Harborough Road and working in the shoe trade when he enlisted on 2nd March 1916. He was aged 18 years & 8 months when he was examined on 27th February 1917, 5' 7¾" tall, weighed 127 pounds with a chest of 34½" (3½" expansion) and classed as of good physical development and his faith was Church of England.

When he was called up he joined the Bedfordshire Regiment and was sent to isolation hospital in Felixstowe with German Measles from 26th March to 5th April 1917. He qualified as a Lewis Gunner on 8th June 1917 and went to France on 4th July and he joined the Sherwood Foresters on 27th July 1917. Harold was posted missing on 21st March 1918.

SOLDIER'S DEATH - An official communication has been received by Mr and Mrs F G Jordan, of 3, Agnes-road, Northampton, formerly of Harborough-road, Rushden, to the effect that their son, Harold Vorley Jordan, Sherwood Foresters, who has been missing since March 21st, 1918, is now assumed by the Army Council to have been killed on that date. The deceased soldier, who was the grandson of the late Mr Foster Vorley, of Rushden, was formerly connected with the Park-road Baptist church, and his name appears on the Roll of Honour of that place of worship. He was 19 years of age. His parents, before moving to Rushden, resided for some years at Irthlingborough.

In Memoriam

JORDAN - Harold Vorley Jordan, the devoted and dearly loved son of Mr and Mrs F G Jordan, 3 Agnes-road, Northampton, and beloved grandson of the late Mr and Mrs F Vorley, of Rushden, reported missing since March 21st, 1918, now presumed killed on that date. Aged 19 years and 9 months.