PRIVATE G. JORDAN, 3RD BATTALION GRENADIER GUARDS. Crimea Medal, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (regimentally impressed: 7682 G. JORDON. 3RD. Bn. (.. .. .) GDS.). Note incorrect spelling of surname on medal.

PRIVATE G. JORDAN, 3RD BATTALION GRENADIER GUARDS. Crimea Medal, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (regimentally impressed: 7682 G. JORDON. 3RD. Bn. (.. .. .) GDS.). Note incorrect spelling of surname on medal. Medal contact marked and rim bruised, partially obscuring naming details (as indicated), otherwise with an attractive old dark tone and Almost Very Fine to Very Fine.

Medal accompanied by 4 pages of copied discharge papers, copied extracts from 1881 census and medal rolls for the Crimea Medal and Turkish Crimea Medal, confirming medal and clasp, and that Jordan was also entitled to the Turkish Crimea Medal. Crimea Medal roll gives christian name incorrectly as “James”, first two digits of regimental number obscured, but third and fourth digits “82” as on Jordan’s service papers and Turkish Crimea Medal roll.

Born circa 1831 in the parish of Langford, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, George Jordan enlisted into the Grenadier Guards at Berwick on Tween on 20/11/1854. At the time of enlistment he gave his trade as that of labourer. Jordan never rose above the rank of Private and was discharged at London in March 1876 after 21 years and 107 days service with the colours. He was 44 years and 9 months old and gave his intended place of residence as Langford. At the time of discharge Jordan’s conduct was described as “Good”, despite the fact that his service record note that he was three time jailed, in 1854 and 1856, the third period of imprisonment being for “habitual drunkeness”. Jordan’s breaches of discipline were no doubt the reason why he was not awarded a Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, even though his length of service qualified him for one. Jordan is recorded in the 1881 census as a 50 year old agricultural labourer resident in Langford, Bedfordshire, with his 49 year old wife, Ann, a “straw plaitter”.