Significance
Sgt Rendle joined the British Army in September 1902. He served in South Africa with the 1st Battalion of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (DCLI) from 1903 to 1906. He was mustered as a stretcher bearer when the Battalion was deployed to France on 13 August 1914. He was awarded the Victoria Cross for conspicuous bravery near Wulverghem in Belgium on 20 November 1914. He received the medal from King George V at Buckingham Palace on 12 July 1915.
The Citation for the award of the Victoria Cross published in the Second Supplement to The London Gazette of 8 January 1915. 11 January 1915, Number 29037, page 365 reads
"For conspicuous bravery on the 20th November, near Wulverghem, when he attended to the wounded under very heavy shell and rifle fire, and rescued men from the trenches in which they had been buried by the blowing in of the parapets by the fire of the enemy's heavy howitzers."
After the war, he emigrated to South Africa and became Bandmaster of the Duke of Edinburgh's Own Volunteer Rifles (DEOVR).
Further reading
The Victoria Cross
Sites in the vicinity
Conductor H.H. Glasock VC
Sergeant Thomas Edward Rendle, VC