Tom Rennie

Major-General Thomas Gordon Rennie, (3 January 1900 – 24 March 1945) was a British Army officer who served with distinction during the Second World War. He was the General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the 3rd Infantry Division during the Normandy landings in June 1944. He was injured on 13 June but recovered quickly and was given command of the 51st (Highland) Infantry Division, which he led for the rest of the campaign in Western Europe until he was killed in action during Operation Plunder, the Allied crossing of the River Rhine, in March 1945.

Military career A head and shoulder portrait of Brigadier T. G. Rennie in uniform. Educated at Loretto School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Rennie was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) on 16 July 1919. After attending the Staff College, Camberley, from 1933 to 1934, he saw active service in the Second World War, was taken prisoner at Saint-Valery-en-Caux during the final stages of the Battle of France in June 1940, but then escaped nine days later. and then becoming commander of the 154th Infantry Brigade