In Memory Of

RENNIE, GORDON JAMES

Service Details
Age:
 28
Date of Birth:
 1887-03-17
Rank:
 Captain
Unit:
 6th Regt.
Unit 2:
 "A" Coy.
Regiment:
 South African Infantry
Date of Death:
 1916-02-12
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, received at Battle of Salaita Hill
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 V. A. 1.
Cemetery:
 TAVETA MILITARY CEMETERY
Country:
 Kenya
Additional Information
Son of John Thomson Rennie and Lucy Margaret Hodges (nee Blood) Rennie, of Ardhuncart Lodge, Morsal, Aberdeenshire, Scotland; husband of Maria Dorothy (nee Steele) Rennie. Born Durban North. Member of the Royal Natal Yacht Club; a ship's broker with John T. Rennie & Sons, Durban. Served with Durban Light Infantry in German South West Africa 1914-1915. Commemorated on the Durban Cenotaph; the Durban High School; Radley College; St. Thomas' Anglican Church, Musgrave; St. Mary's Anglican Church, Greyville & the Durban Light Infantry WWI Memorials as well as on a special memorial plaque in St. Thomas' Anglican Church, Musgrave.