John Harald Rhodes (VC, DCM & Bar) was 26 years old, and a Lance Sergeant in the 3rd Bn., Grenadier Guards, during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

His citation reads:

On 9 October 1917 near Houthulst Forest, east of Ypres, Belgium, Lance-Sergeant Rhodes was in charge of a Lewis gun section covering the consolidation of the right front company. He accounted for several of the enemy with his rifle as well as by Lewis-gun fire and upon seeing three of the enemy leave a pill-box he went alone through our barrage and hostile machine-gun fire and got into the pill-box. There he captured nine of the enemy including a forward observation officer connected by telephone to his battery. Lance-Sergeant Rhodes brought back these prisoners, together with valuable information.

Rocquigny-Equancourt Road
British Cemetery

He was killed in action at Fontaine Notre Dame, France, on 27 November 1917.

Rhodes was born in Packmoor, Staffordshire on 17 May 1891. His grave is at Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery, Manacourt, France.

His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Grenadier Guards Regimental Headquarters, Wellington Barracks, London, England.