In memory of

Warrant Officer class 2

Thomas Lawrence Jordan

who died on 6 Feb 1944


Service details
  Conflict WWII
  Service RCAF
  Unit No. 6 Operational Training Unit, Royal Air Force
  Rank Warrant Officer class 2
  Service number R120879
  Date of death 19440206
  Cause of death died in a training accident
Narrative history
  R120879 Warrant Officer 2 (RCAF wireless air gunner) Thomas Lawrence (Tom) Jordan (b.1922) of Morse died 19440206 over the North Sea and is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial near London, England, for airmen from the north European theatre who died with no known grave. Jordan's Wellington blew up near Drem, Midlothian, Scotland, on a training flight from No. 6 Operational Training Unit. He was the only son of William James and Rhoda (Bettles) Jordan who came from Goderich, Huron Co., Ontario, to homestead SE32-18-7-W3 north of Ernfold in 1913. Tom was born and educated at Morse and was working at the post office there when he enlisted at Regina in 1941.

RW Pratt died on the same flight.
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Memorial information
  Saskatchewan rural municipality for commemoration 165 - Morse
  Cemetery or memorial location Runnymede Memorial, Egham, Surrey, England    

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  Honour roll location(s) ------
  Geo-memorial Jordan Lake, Saskatchewan     
  Geo-memorial location 59.95°N / 109.2167°W
  Geo-memorial NTS map reference 74N14
  Geo-memorial details North of Tazin Lake.
Personal information
  Date of birth 19220327
  Place of birth Ernfold    
  Date of enlistment 19410828
  Place of enlistment Regina    
  Residence on enlistment Morse    
  Occupation postal worker
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