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Mark Norman Rennie
East Riding of Yorkshire HU17 0DN
England
Born Sheffield, 8 Feb 1888. Son of Thomas Edward and Elizabeth Ellen Rennie; husband of Dorothy Rennie, of 5, Highgate, Beverley, East Yorkshire (Probate & CWGC address).
Served as Lieutenant, Royal Naval Reserve, H.M.S. "Vala."
Died 21 August 1917. Age 29 years old. He is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial Kent and the Beverley WW1 Memorial
He left £138 in his will to his widow, Dorothy.
HMS Vala, built by Ramage & Ferguson, Ltd., Leith in 1894 and operated at the time of her loss by Royal Navy, was a British Q-ship of 1.016 tons. She was originally a cargo ship owned by J. T. Salvesen, Grangemouth. On August 20th, 1917, Vala was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UB-54 (Egon von Werner), 120 miles southwest of Scilly Island. Most of the crew survived the double torpedo attack and went into the boats, but nothing was ever heard of them. 43 persons were lost. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?13517
Medway ME7 5DQ
England
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