He died in hospital not long afterward.[A]
[Footnote A: The obituary columns of The Times of April 30 contained the
following notice under "Died of Wounds":
RHODES-MOORHOUSE.--On Tuesday, the 27th April, of wounds
received while dropping bombs on Courtrai the day before,
WILLIAM BARNARD RHODES RHODES-MOORHOUSE, Second Lieutenant,
Royal Flying Corps, aged 27, dear elder son of Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Moorhouse of Parnham House, Dorset, and most loved
husband of Linda Rhodes-Moorhouse.]
The outstanding feature of the action of the past week has been the
steadiness of our troops on the extreme left; but of the deeds of
individual gallantry and devotion which have been performed it would be
impossible to narrate one-hundredth part. At one place in this quarter a
machine gun was stationed in the angle of a trench when the German rush
took place. One man after another of the detachment was shot, but the
gun still continued in action, though five bodies lay around it. When
the sixth man took the place of his fallen comrades, of whom one was his
brother, the Germans were still pressing on.
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