Philip Rhoden

Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Edington Rhoden, OBE, ED (23 December 1914 – 13 March 2003 ) was the Commanding Officer of 2/14th Battalion Second Australian Imperial Force (AIF) at the Battle of Isurava in 1942 in what was then the Australian territory of Papua. Educated at Melbourne Grammar and the University of Melbourne, Rhoden was a solicitor by trade. He was admitted to the Victorian Bar in 1939 and worked for John P Rhoden Solicitors.