page_title: Louisa Jordan
section_title: First World War service
hierarchical_section_title: Louisa Jordan / First World War service
caption_attribution_description: English: Scottish Women's Hospital people killed in WWI https://archive.org/details/cihm_65037/page/n469
context_page_description: Louisa Jordan was a Scottish nurse who died in service during the First World War.
context_section_description: Working as a nurse in Buckhaven at the start of the First World War, Jordan enlisted with the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service in December 1914. 
  She joined the 1st Serbian unit under the command of Eleanor Soltau. They departed from Southampton in mid-December. On arrival at Salonica, Serbia, the unit was deployed to Kragujevac. She initially treated war-wounded soldiers at the Scottish Women's Hospital.
  During the Serbian epidemic of typhus in early 1915, she was placed in charge of the new typhus ward. Jordan had volunteered to treat Elizabeth Ross, who was dying of typhus, and Jordan herself died of the disease in March 1915. An Edinburgh orderly nurse, Margaret Neill Fraser, is also reported to have died from typhus when treating the sick in Serbia at the same time. 
  Jordan was buried at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Chela Kula Military Cemetery in Niš, where she is remembered annually in Serbia along with other nurses who served during the 1915 typhus epidemic. Her grave (D. 5), with no religious emblem, is inscribed "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN". In Scotland she is commemorated at the Buckhaven War Memorial and at Kelvinbridge Parish Church in Glasgow. Her name is also included in a memorial panel at York Minster.
caption: Scottish Women's Hospitals roll of honour
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