Career
He was 29 years old, and a bandsman in the 1st Battalion, The Duke of Cornwall"s Light Infantry, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the Venture capital. On 20 November 1914 near Wulverghem, Belgium, Bandsman Rendle attended to the wounded under very heavy rifle and shell fire and rescued men from the trenches in which they had been buried from the blowing in of the parapets by the fire of the enemy"s heavy howitzers. After World War I, he emigrated to South Africa where he became bandmaster of the Duke of Edinburgh"s Own Rifles.
