BORN HULL 1898. SON OF ALBERT SUDDABY RHODES (1867-1929) & LEMONTINA (MINNIE) RHODES (1869-1941) OF 4, EMMAS PLACE, SWANN STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS) AND 3 RICHARDS PLACE, YORK STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS).
SON OF A LABOURER. ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS CORPORAL, IN THE 9TH YORK AND LANCASTER REGIMENT. WAS KILLED WHILE GUARDING AMMUNITION, ON 07/06/1917, AGED 19.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, MINNIE. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE YPRES, MENIN GATE MEMORIAL, BELGIUM.
First name:
JOHN ROBERT
Military Number:
36424, 260015, 1625
Rank:
Corporal
Date Died
07/06/1917
Place died:
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
19
