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Reg was born 29 July 1944 in Srinigar in the Kashmir Valley. His father Lt. Col. Hew Renwick was an officer in the Indian Army and his mother Evelyn was related to the Popes of the Eldridge Pope brewery business in Dorset. After attending school at Lancing, he joined the T.A. in the 1960s, and commissioned into the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. Later he moved south to London where his genetic propensity to alcohol-based beverages led him to a career in the wine business. This move also led him to discover the London Scottish Regimental Association and he joined G Company not long after its formation.
Reg and wife Christina had two children Jamie and Kirsty. He later moved back north to the small village of Grindleton in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire. More recently Reg worked with the late Mike Brown, the late Ramsay Blair and the very much still-alive-and-kicking Bruce Young in Mike’s Pop-Up Power Supplies company.
Reg came on the centenary London Scottish Regimental Association trip to Messines and Ypres in 2014 where he laid a wreath at the London Scottish Memorial in memory of his father and all of the 1st Battalion involved there 100 years previously. Reg often related a story told by his father that, years after the war, Hew had befriended a Bavarian who was also a veteran of the fighting at Messines in 1914. The German reminded Hew that the two of them were there, talking to one another, only because they had both been such bad shots!
He passed away in hospital on 26 April after a lengthy illness which had seen him in and out of medical facilities for more than a year.
Martin Felstead
Honorary Secretary
London Scottish Regimental Association