George Henry Rhodes EM

b. 24/12/1879 Sheffield, Yorkshire.  d. ? 1937 Sheffield, Yorkshire.

DATE OF EM ACTION: 26/06/1911 Sheffield, Yorkshire.

George Henry was the second of four children born to Edwin and Mary Ann Rhodes. George became a gas fitter working for the Sheffield Gas Company. He married Annie and they had a daughter Olive. He died in Sheffield in 1937, aged 58.

 

EM CITATION:

On the  26th June,  1911, Rhodes was working in  an  underground  washer tank  belonging  to the    Sheffield    Gas   Company,   at    Effingham Street,  Sheffield,  with  two men named Jenkinson  and  Foster  when a  serious explosion of  gas took  place.  As  a  result,  Foster  was  severely burned  and  imprisoned  at  the  far  end  of  the tank,  access to  which  was  blocked  by  the  explosion.    Having  given the  alarm,  Rhodes returned  through  the  underground   passage  to the  tank,  in  the  presence of great  danger  of  a further    explosion   from    escaping   gas,    and managed to reach Foster, whose cries he  heard. He  could  not,    however,   release   him   until Dickson  and  Wood  came   to   his    assistance. These  two men were not  working  in  the  tank, but heard Foster’s cries,  and immediately  went to  his  assistance  without  knowing that  Rhodes had  preceded them.    They  got into the  underground  passage by  another  entrance,  and their help  enabled  Rhodes  to  release  Foster.

 

BURIAL LOCATION: UNKNOWN.

LOCATION OF MEDAL: UNKNOWN.