Samuel Jordan

Samuel was born in 1894 at Daybrook in one of the cottages which ran in a terrace from the Baptist Church down towards the old Railway Bridge (more or less on the site of the B&Q car park).he was the son of Samuel a hosiery worker and Ann Jordan née Martin of Sherbrook Road, Daybrook. His father was born in 1859 at Daybrook and his mother Ann Martin was born in 1863 also at Daybrook, they were married in 1880, their marriage was recorded in the Basford Registration District, they had 9 children, sadly one died in infancy, their surviving children were, George b1881, William b1882, Elizabethb1886, Annie b1888, Ellen b1891, Frank b1893, Samuel b1894 and Ada b1899. Samuel was unmarried and worked at the Co-op at Dunkirk, Nottingham where he was a grocers assistant. In the 1911 Cencus he is shown with his family at Sherbrook Road , Daybrook

He was employed as a grocers assistant at the Co Operative store at Dunkirk

He enlisted into the Sherwood Foresters and was posted to their 2/8th Battalion. The battalion moved to Dublin in 1916, to serve in the suppression of the Irish Rebellion. They returned to England (Fovant in Wiltshire) in January 1917, and moved from there to France in February 1917. On 26th September 1917 during an attack on Toronto Farm as the 2/8th advanced they came under heavy machine gun fire from guns sited on the edge of Gravenstafel and also on a small ridge known as the Abraham’s Heights, men were falling fast but the advance continued and Toronto Farm was taken. They passed through the farm and next attacked and took an area of ground known as “Riverside”. This was about another 200 yards further on. At some point during this attack Samuel was hit and killed, either by a machine gun bullet or by shrapnel. His body was recovered and buried in Ypres reservoir cemetery Belgium Plot I. Row F. Grave 31.