PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Rennie, Tom Gordon
Date of birth: January 3rd, 1900 (Fuzhou, China)
Date of death:  March 24th, 1945 (near Rees/Rhine Province, Germany)
Nationality:  British
BIOGRAPHY: 
After the Rhine crossing in the night of 23 to 24 March 1945 (Operation Plunder), Major-General Tom Gordon Rennie was killed by a mortar bomb during the fighting for the village of Rees on 24 March 1945.
     
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ORDER (DSO)
Rank: Lieutenant-colonel
Unit: Commander 154th Infantry Brigade, 51st (Highland) Infantry Division
Awarded on: January 14th, 1943
 
     
COMPANION OF THE MOST HONOURABLE ORDER OF THE BATH (CB)
Rank: Major-general
Unit: Commanding General 51st (Highland) Infantry Division, British Territorial Army
Awarded on: September 28th, 1944
 
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Information source(s):   - Smart, N., Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War, Pen & Sword Books Limited, Barnsley, England, 2005
- Mead, R., Churchill’s Lions – A Biographical Guide to the Key British Generals of World War II, Spellmount Publishers Ltd., Chalford, England, 2007
- Delaforce, P., Monty’s Highlanders – 51st Highland Division in the Second World War, Pen & Sword Books Limited, Barnsley, England, 2007
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