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)
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, understood to have been the last DLI Officer living to have served in World War One.
