More about George Rennison

George Rennison was born in Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire and was a Plumber when he joined the Royal Navy in 1901 as a Stoker Second Class. After training at HMS Pembroke, the Naval Barracks at Chatham in Kent he served in several ships including HM Ships Bacchante, Resolution, Triumph, Blake, Tyne, St George, Actaeon and was drafted to HMS Vulcan at Dundee in January 1913. He left the Navy in December 1913 on the expiry of his engagement and enrolled in the Royal Fleet Reserve Service Number RFR.B 10899. On the outbreak of war he was recalled and was drafted into the Hood Battalion of the Royal Naval Division and retrained as a Naval Infantryman. The Hood Battalion was sent to Antwerp in October 1914 to help the Belgian Army defend the city from the German advance but had to be withdrawn after two days. It reformed in Portsmouth and then at Blandford Camp in Dorset before departing for the Dardanelles at the end of February 1915. The Hood Battalion landed at Gallipoli in late April and took part in the Second and Third Krithia battle to seize the high ground overlooking the Allied foothold on the Peninsula. George Rennison was invalided from the front lines with dysentery in September and evacuated to Britain onboard the Aquitania in October. After recuperation he returned to Blandford and transferred to Sea Service in January 1916 and based at HMS Pembroke. In March 1917 he was drafted to the Submarine Depot Ship HMS Platypus which was based at Campbeltown in 1918. He died from pneumonia in July 1918 and is buried in the Kilkerran Cemetery, Grave reference 3.609, in Campbeltown, Argyle. He was married to Mrs Hannah Maria Rennison.