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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[appears to be Sirr<ref>clive_hughes [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/248745-on-soldiers-effects-not-on-cwgc-help-please-kut-vol-arty-battery/&do=findComment&comment=2507853 On Soldiers Effects not on CWGC? Help please! Kut - Vol Arty Battery] ''Great War Forum'' 25 March 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2017.</ref>], 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!Kut - Vol Arty Battery] ''Great War Forum'' 24 March 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2017.</ref>
*Believed Prisoners of War: Volunteer Artillery Battery: Major A J Anderson, Captain K F Freeland, Lieutenant R Spence, 2nd Lieutenant E H Jones.<ref>"The Roll Of Honour: Losses in the War" (1916, Jul 31), page 8 ''The Times of India''. Retrieved from <nowiki>http://search.proquest.com/docview/310895555?accountid=13902
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