Private George Edward Rhodes enlisted into the 2nd Battalion on the 13th of January 1931. He served with the “C” Company in India, the Sudan, France and in Guernsey.   

In 1933, he was serving as a Private with the “D” Company no. 13 Platoon, the 2nd Battalion. He had moved again within the Battalion in 1938, and was in the Headquarter Wing no. 3 group, as a private. 

George was with the Battalion in 1940 when it was part of the British Expeditionary Force in France.  He became a Prisoner of War (POW) in France when he was taken by the Germans before Dunkirk. His prisoner number was 16417.  George was held at various camps, the last of which is known to being Stalag 344 at Lamsdorf.  He was repatriated in 1945. 

George was discharged to Z Reserve on the 13th of March 1946. He would live at New Houghton, Mansfield, Nottingham.