BORN HULL 1887. SON OF JOHN FISHCROFT RENNARD & AGNES (SHILLING) RENNARD AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. SON OF A SHIPWRIGHT. ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. WORKED AT J GIBBINS, BOILER MAKERS, ST ANDREWS DOCK ENLISTED AS A REGULAR SOLDIER, ON 14/07/1905. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT 6 INCHES TALL, 115 LBS WEIGHT, 34 INCH CHEST, BROWN EYES, BROWN HAIR. DIED OF WOUNDS ON 05/11/1914, AGED 27. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER JOHN.
BURIED: Messines Ridge British Cemetery: Mesen, Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen), Belgium
HIS BROTHER, TOM ALSO SERVED IN THE RIFLE BRIGADE AND WAS WOUNDED AT LOOS..HIS YOUNGEST BROTHER, SAPPER, JOHN RENNARD, RE’S, DIED OF WOUNDS ON 04/09/1917, AGED 27. THEY ARE BOTH LISTED ON THE COURTNEY STREET ROH
First name:
WILLIAM
Military Number:
6570
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Date Died
05/11/1914
Place died:
Messines Ridge British Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
27
10 GARDEN TERRACE, COURTNEY STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
