LRDG Rhodes, Frank Balfour

John Robertson

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  • SURNAME
Rhodes
  • FORENAME
Frank Balfour
  • UNIT
Group HQ (Heavy Section)
  • RANK
Trooper
  • NUMBER
1331
  • DATE OF DEATH
10th November 1943
  • AGE
30
  • GRAVESITE
Peria Public Cemetery,Northland,New Zealand 4.B.1
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit North Auckland Mounted Rifles,New Zealand Divisional Cavalry Regiment
born 4.4.1913 Fern Flat,North Auckland
resided Mangonui,North Auckland
son of Arthur George and Mabel Rhodes,Peria,Northland,New Zealand
enlisted 20.9.1939
Long Range Patrol July 1940
NZ Div.Cavalry Regiment January 1941
LRDG 27.3.1942
fatally injured whilst on leave in New Zealand
died same day Rotorua Public Hospital,New Zealand
headstone shows Frank D. Rhodes (error)
Admitted to the Rotorua Hospital on November 10 last in a critical condition with serious injuries suffered in the State forestry area at Te Whaiti, Mr. Frank Balfour Rhodes, aged 30, bushman, died the same night. At the inquest held in Rotorua the coroner, Mr. W. L. Richards, returned a verdict that death had been accidental and that Mr. Rhodes had died as the result of severe injuries to the chest and shock. The coroner commented that a sad feature of the case was that deceased had been on furlough after serving in the Middle East."
AUCKLAND STAR, VOLUME LXXIV, ISSUE 275, 19 NOVEMBER 1943, PAGE 4
 
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