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*''The Rangoon Times'' says:- It is regrettable that the first news of the Moblie Battery should be the sad news of the drowning of J C Jordan,… who was accidentally drowned in Mesopotamia on 31 July… the son of Mr Chater Jordan, the late well-known barrister of Rangoon.<ref>"India And The War" (1915, Aug 17), page 7 ''The Times of India'' Retrieved from <nowiki>http://search.proquest.com/docview/500180775?accountid=13902</nowiki></ref>. He was buried at Amara Cemetery, [http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/629055/JORDAN,%20J%20C CWGC record], where his regiment is recorded as Madras Artillery Volunteers.
*Rangoon, June 5. An official communication has been received from the Adjutant-General in India, giving the following twenty-eight names of non-commissioned officers and men from the Volunteer Artillery Battery, who were made prisoners at Kut. Sergeants Heals and Rollo; Bombardier Baroni, Christison, and Gunners Wells, Abrahams, Archer, Ariss, Dias, Illingworth, Lether, Ghosh, Macgowan, Grant, Mitchell, Prazer, Wall, Foley, Lecky, Thompson, Loader, Pearse, Sharp, Sirt, Warson, Blazey, Dawes, Webb and Wilcox.<ref>"Rangoon Volunteers In Kut". (1916, Jun 07), page 7. ''The Times of India''. Retrieved from <nowiki>http://search.proquest.com/docview/596274855?accountid=13902</nowiki></ref>
**[http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/158634493 "Bombardier Pearse. How He Died. Unwholesome Turkish Biscuits"]. ''National Advocate'' (Bathurst, NSW) 27 Nov 1917 Page 3 trove.nla.gov.au <ref>charlie962. [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/248745-on-soldiers-effects-not-on-cwgc-help-please/&do=findComment&comment=2507559 On Soldiers Effects not on CWGC? Help please!] ''Great War Forum'' 24 March 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2017.</ref>
