George Parker Rodd, one of Thomas and Elizabeth's six children, was the fifth generation within his family to be in the militia. George joined the militia in his early twenties, and when the second World War broke out, he was qualified for the position of Sergeant, which he took in the Cape Breton Highlanders in September of 1939. George went overseas in September of 1942, was torpedoed, and rescued en route to the Mediterranean. After acting as liaison officer for a short time with the R.A.F., he was transferred to Italy. George Parker Rodd was confirmed missing in action on the 1 February 1944.

Thomas Ambrose Rodd was born on the 20 October 1870, the third of six children of John and Elizabeth Rodd of Milton, Prince Edward Island. Thomas married Elizabeth Ethel Crockett of Little York on the 23 February 1904. Having joined the 82nd Regiment as a young man, Thomas was company Sergeant Major in the militia detachment which, in 1897, represented PEI at the Queen's Jubilee. On his return he secured a commission which he resigned two years later in order to go to South Africa with the first contingent to the Boer War. When the Prince Edward Island Light Horse was formed, Thomas was the first Sergeant major, and later obtained a Lieutenancy in his unit, from which he was discharged the 3 November 1900.