Gee Charles Hilton Rodney Major 24874
Personnel Entry
Name Gee Charles Hilton Rodney
Army number 24874
Rank Major
Decorations M.C. 7/11/1918, M.i.D. 14/2/1946, T.D.
Date of birth 1897
Age
Unit Durham Light Infantry - Commissioned 2/Lt 9th Bn DLI 1/3/1917, Lt Clifton College OTC 1/9/1918, Posted 11th Bn 1/1/1940, With Advance Party to B.E.F., Prisoner of War, Retired 23/1/51, retaining the rank of Major.
Company/Battery Bn HQ
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role Battalion second-in-command
Joined Brigade 01-Jan-40
Promotions A/Captain 3/8/1917, Major 14/1/1930 (Clifton College CCF)
Wounded
Prisoner of War Oflag 0.9A/H Spangenburg, Hess, No 555.
Died/Killed in action 7/4/1998
Home address Son of Reverend C.V.Gee, Vicar of Castletown, Sunderland. Educated Durham School and Cambridge (BA 1922). Lowick Vicarage, Berwick-upon-Tweed.
Source table 11DLI
To listen to a lengthy and detailed interview with Lt Col Gee, conducted by Peter M Hart, Oral Historian at the Imperial War Museum © IWM click hereto the link on the Imperial War Museum Collections Website.
Major Gee died at a Nursing Home in Bristol in April 1998, understood to have been the last DLI Officer living to have served in World War One. He entered France and Flanders on 6th April 1917 and earned the Victory and British Service Medals, as well as his gallantry decoration.
