80th Division Veterans Association

Photo Collection: Jordan Sellers / Lunsford M. Jordan
Lunsford McKinnny Alston Jordan (b. 20 Jul 1890 d. 25 Apr 1973)

(Great Uncle Lunsford M. Jordon served as an ambulance driver with the 317th Infantry Regiment, Medical Detachment, 80th Division, during World War I)
This phenomenal collection consists of 11 postcards and 44 letters written from the frontlines.

The Library of Virginia also has a WWI questionnaire that Lunsford filled out. As is characteristic of those documents, Lunsford doesn't divulge many details: http://image.lva.virginia.gov/WWI/pages/043/0038.html


Lunsford M. Jordan


January 1, 1919


December 28, 1918


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