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.
