G.+H.+RHODES

Rhodes, George Henry Yeomans, Driver, 2667, 13th Brigade, Australian Field Artillery Born Kilburn, Derbyshire Enlisted Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Died 28th November 1918 aged 28 Son of Thomas and Clara Rhodes, of Chapel St., Kilburn, Derby, England. Buried in Villers Bretonneux Military Cemetery, XIIIA, BB, 5

George was employed as a farm hand in Australia, he was 5 feet 4 and half inches in height, 10 stone in weight, had a fresh complexion, blue eyes and fair hair, one vaccination mark on his left arm and a scar on his abdomen. His religious denomination was Methodist. Enlisting in the 8th Infantry Battalion, 21st June 1915, embarking from Australia on the 10th September the same year. He was then admitted to hospital at the Abbassieh Defence Barracks, Egypt, with venereal disease on the 11th October 1915, and was under treatment until the 6th December. He was then transferred to the newly formed 59th Infantry Battalion at Zeitoun, Egypt, 26th February 1916, then transferred to the 57th Infantry Battalion at Tel el Kebir, Egypt, 15th March. He was then transferred two days later to the 5th Division Artillery, being posted to the 49th Battery as a Driver. He next embarked on the 'Tunisian' for France on the 16th June, arriving in Marseilles on the 23rd. He was granted furlough from the 17th to the 30th June 1917, and was again admitted to hospital for venereal disease on the 2nd July, being under treatment until the 19th August. He received a second furlough from the 6th to the 20th March 1918, serving continuously thereafter until being admitted to hospital on the 23rd November 1918. Sadly, he died at the 41st Stationary Hospital, France, of influenza, on the 28th November 1918.

1911 Census A coal miner ovenman Son of Thomas Yeomans Rhodes, a coal miner hewer, and Clara Ann Yeomans Rhodes, of Chapel Street, Kilburn, Derbyshire