[1] A plaque in his honour is displayed on the wall of the John Weir Foote VCA Armouries on the east side of James Street North in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

"Jock Rennie was awarded the George Cross posthumously in May 1944 for an instinctive, selfless act of heroism.

Rennie enlisted in The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise's) at Hamilton, Ontario in July 1940, and went overseas with them to England in the summer of 1943.

On October 29, 1943, he was supervising a grenade-throwing exercise near Riddlesworth when a live grenade fell back into the trench.

"[2] He was buried in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Brookwood Military Cemetery in Surrey, United Kingdom.