Acting-Captain Erice George Rhodes, (1890-15/8/1945). "at Ottawa"

DEATHS

RHODES — On August 15, 1945, at Ottawa, Acting-Captain Eric George Rhodes, R.N., member of the British Admiralty Technical Mission to Canada, younger son of the late George Hampton Rhodes, of Claremont, Timaru.  -Timaru Herald, 21/8/1945.

OBITUARY

CAPTAIN E. G. RHODES

(P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, August 20. 

Advice has been received in New Zealand of the sudden death in Ottawa of Captain Eric George Rhodes, R.N., of Christchurch, who was serving with the British Admiralty Technical Commission in Canada. Captain Rhodes was the younger son of the late Mr George Hampton Rhodes, of “Oakford,” Riccarton. Born at Christchurch in 1890, he was educated at Kent Lodge, Christchurch, and Twyford School, near Winchester, England. At the outbreak of the 1914-18 war he was in command of the destroyer Moy for a time. He was a member of the staff of the Devonport gunnery school and subsequently he served in the Channel patrol, on the coasts of Palestine and Syria, at Suez Canal, the Dardanelles, in the first and second landings at Gallipoli and the evacuation and in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea. He was promoted to lieutenant-commander in 1918. At the end of the war he served on the Austrian Disarmament Commission as gunnery officer and then retired from the service and returned to New Zealand. In 1930 he was posted to the retired list with the rank of commander. Shortly before the second world war he went to England, and on the outbreak of war he was given a command in the London docks. In 1940 he went to the Navy Office in Bombay, where he served for two years before being transferred to the Navy Office at Newcastle-on-Tyne. He was to have returned on leave to New Zealand last year, but at the last moment was appointed to the British Admiralty Technical Commission in Canada with headquarters at Ottawa and promoted to the rank of acting captain.  -Southland Times, 21/8/1945.

Timaru Cemetery.