William Lancelot Jordan

William Lancelot Jordan

Infobox Military Person
name=William Lancelot Jordan
born=3 December 1896
died=1931
placeofbirth=Georgetown, South Africa
placeofdeath=Northern England
allegiance=England
branch=Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force
serviceyears=1917-1918
rank=Captain
commands=
unit=
battles=World War I
awards=Distinguished Service Cross & Bar
Distinguished Service Cross
laterwork=

William Lancelot Jordan DSC & Bar, DFC (3 December 1896 - 1931) was a World War I flying ace. he was born in South Africa, but moved to London.

He enlisted in the Royal Naval Air Service as a mechanic in September, 1916, and subsequently volunteered to fly as a gunner. From there, he received his pilot's training in 1917 and was posted to RNAS 8 to fly Sopwith Triplanes. Shortly after his arrival, Naval 8 upgraded to Sopwith Camels. Flying the Sopwith Camel, Jordan scored 39 victories.

He scored his first victory on 13 July 1917, driving a German Rumpler down out of control. His third through seventh victories were triumphs shared with other squadron members. It was only with his tenth victory that he was credited with an actual destruction of an enemy, as opposed to driving them down out of control. This string of victories was interrupted by his suffering a leg wound in September, 1917.

RNAS 8 became No. 208 Squadron of the Royal Air Force when the latter was founded by amalgamation of the RNAS and the Royal Flying Corps on 1 April 1918. Jordan thus scored 18 victories for the RNAS and 21 for the RAF without changing squadrons. Another notable feature of Jordan's career is that 21 of his triumphs were scored by driving an enemy craft down out of control.

Jordan was removed from operations at the end of the war, and thus survived, only to be killed in an car accident in late 1931. [ [http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/safrica/jordan.php www.theaerodrome.com] .Accessed 8 June 2008.]

Reference

2) Norman Franks & Harry Dempsey, "Sopwith Camel Aces of World War I (Aircraft of the Aces)(Paperback),Osprey Publishing, 2003.

Persondata
NAME=Jordan, William Lancelot
SHORT DESCRIPTION=South African World War I pilot
DATE OF BIRTH=December 3, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH=Georgetown, South Africa
DATE OF DEATH=1931
PLACE OF DEATH=England


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