George 'Dusty' Rhodes

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George 'Dusty' Rhodes was born on July 23rd 1916 in Clowne, Derbyshire, UK. During the Second World War 1939 - 1945 he was a British Army Sergeant in the 70th Field Regiment Royal Artillery who fought in the British Eighth Army North Africa Campaign against Field Marshal Rommel's Deutsches Afrika Korps. He also fought at Salerno in Italy as well as other locations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, commanding a gun team armed with an Ordnance QF 25 pounder field gun and a Morris C8 'QUAD'. George 'Dusty' Rhodes wrote a personal history of the Second World War entitled 'Under the Oak Tree' after the name given to the 46th Infantry Division. He dedicated the book to his grand-children John, Katy and Michael.