LEST WE FORGET
Group Captain Reginald Charles JORDAN MID (Twice)
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
Service No: 28072 (RAF)
Born: Southend, Essex UK, 11 April 1907
Enlisted in the RAF: date unavailable
Unit: No. 126 Squadron (RAF)
Awarded the Mentioned in Despatches (MID) on two occasions
Died: Air Operations: (No. 126 Squadron Spitfire aircraft JF352), vicinity of Sicily, 23 June 1943, Aged 36 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Robert Charles and Alice Sarah Jordan; husband of Anne Lougheed Jordan, of South Kensington, London. B.Sc., Eng. (London)
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 5, Malta Memorial, Malta
Remembered: Panel Supplementary 12, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Group Captain Jordan was an Australian Cadet trained for the RAF who embarked for the UK on 3 April 1929.
He was lost on Air Operations off Sicily in Spitfire JF352 on 23 June 1943.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Newton, Dennis A Few of the Few: Australians and the Battle of Britain, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT 2600, 1990