BORN HULL 1898. SON OF ALBERT SUDDABY RHODES (1867-1929) & LEMONTINA (MINNIE) RHODES (1869-1941) OF EMMAS PLACE SWAN STREET, HULL 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 MENIN GATE MEMORIAL AT YPRES.
First name:
JOHN ROBERT
Military Number:
36424
Rank:
Corporal
Date Died
07/06/1917
Place died:
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
19
3 RICHARDS PLACE, YORK STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
