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Private Thomas Jordan. 3/7853. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 5 January 1918. Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Middlesbrough. Buried in RAILWAY DUGOUTS BURIAL GROUND, Belgium, which contains 2,459 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. Although Private Jordan was buried in Belgium, his parents grave was in Llanion (Pembrokeshire) and he has been commemorated there. The grave is in a state of some disrepair. Private Jordan's name is commemorated on the War Memorial for Llanion Cemetery, Pembroke Dock. Although Soldiers Died in the Great War shows him as having been born in, and enlisted in, Middlesbrough his name does not appear on the Middlesbrough War Memorial. Photo provided by Owen Vaughan(<owenjvaughan@yahoo.co.uk>)