Born at Chadlington, Oxfordshire, c.1830, the son of William and Rachel Jordan and baptised there on the 9th of January 1831.
1841 Census
[RM: The 1841 Census has him in the household of Thomas and Mary Jordon, Agricultural labourers of Chadlington, Oxfordshire. Both are aged 50 years.]
Enlisted at Hounslow on the 12th of October 1848.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 9".
Trade: Bootmaker.
From Private to Corporal: 26th of February 1853.
Corporal to Sgt, 23rd of September 1854, whilst at the Newbridge Depot.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 25th of May 1855.
Was Provost Sergeant from December of 1855 until March of 1856.
Discharged, "by claim", on the 14th of October 1860.
Served 11 years 362 days.
Conduct and character: "very good". In possession of one Good Conduct badge when promoted.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
The 1861 shows him at Ealing Police station house in the High Street as does the 1871.
The 1891 census shows him as a retired Police Constable living at 53 Bedford Road, Ealing with wife Mary aged 59 and daughter Mary aged 24. By 1901 he was a Police pensioner at 36, The Grove, Ealing.
The GRO registers show him dying in the Brentford registration district in the March quarter of 1909.
Canon Lummis, in his book "Honour the Light Brigade", refers to him as "Charles" Jordan.