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{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Rennick Dennis Patrick Kingston
|Army number=74573
|Rank=Captain
|Date of birth=4/10/1917 in India.
|Age=0
|Unit=Woolwich - graduated Dec 1937, Commissioned as 2/Lt in the Royal Corps of Signals 27/1/1938. Posted Iceland Force. Served Iceland Force Signals. Posted 70 Brigade HQ 21/2/1942 (exchanged postings with Lt Bowen). Posted Air Signals, Northern Ireland, 2/6/1943. For further career details, see below.
|Company/Battery=70th Brigade Headquarters.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Signal Section.
|Task or role=O.C. Brigade Signals Officer
|Joined Brigade=21-Feb-42
|Promotions=Lt 1/1/1941. W/S Captain. Captain 27/1/1946. Major 27/1/1951. Lt Colonel 1/8/1958. Colonel 21/2/1962. Brigadier 30/6/1967.
|Died/Killed in action=Died at the age of 90 in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2007.
|Home address=Held a wide variety of technical posts having qualified as a Telecomms Engineer in 1947. Qualified A.M.I.E.E. Passed Staff College 1949. Married Barbara J Tuczek at Chard in Somerset in Q3 1939. A second marriage, to Janet B. Williams, took place in Howe, Sussex, in July 1984.
|Source table=70BG
}}

[[File:70_Bde_HQ_1942_incl_Capt_DPK_Rennick_-_Royal_Signals.jpg|500px|thumb|centre|used with permission of the Royal Corps of Signals Museum]]

Captain Rennick is seated in the front row at the extreme left.

The National Portrait Gallery holds a portrait of him by the artist Hay Wrightson - to see the Gallery reference please click [http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw222761/Dennis-Patrick-Kingston-Rennick here].

For a note of Captain Rennick's full career, see below.

[[File:Brig_D_P_K_Rennick_-_Service_Record.jpg|500px|thumb|left|used with permission of the Royal Corps of Signals Museum]]

[[File:D_P_K_Rennick_-_Service_Record.jpg|500px|thumb|centre|used with permission of the Royal Corps of Signals Museum]]

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 |Date of birth=4/10/1917 in India.
 |Age=0
-|Unit=Woolwich - graduated Dec 1937, Commissioned as 2/Lt in the Royal Corps of Signals 27/1/1938. Posted Iceland Force. Served Iceland Force Signals.  Posted 70 Brigade HQ 21/2/1942 (exchanged postings with Lt Bowen).  Posted Air Signals, Northern Ireland, 2/6/1943.  For further career details, see below.
+|Unit=Woolwich - graduated Dec 1937, Commissioned as 2/Lt in the Royal Corps of Signals 27/1/1938. Posted Iceland Force. Served Iceland Force Signals.  Posted 70 Brigade HQ 21/2/1942 (exchanged postings with Lt Bowen).  Posted Air Signals, Northern Ireland, 2/6/1943.  For further career details, see below.  Retired 11/4/1970.
 |Company/Battery=70th Brigade Headquarters.
 |Platoon or other sub-unit=Signal Section.

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70bgadmin at 14:18, 16 March 2015

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