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Name Henry Tandey No.
VC Issue No. 1099 Awards VC DCM MM
Regiment Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment, 5th Battalion
Later Duke of Wellington's Regiment
Now 1st Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Sergeant
Place Of Birth Livery Street, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England
Place Of Death At his home, 7 Loudon Avenue, Coundon, Coventry, Wawickshire, England
Buried/Location Ashes Marcoing British Cemetery, Nord, France
Cremated Canley Crematorium, Charter Avenue, Coventry, Warwickshire, England
Date Buried/Cremated 23 December 1977
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no. Site of VC action
Gazetted 14 December 1918
VC Presented 17 December 1919 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Blue Plaque, Kenliworth Street, Regent Hotel, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
P Named on Freeman of the Borough Board, Town Hall, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
P Henry Tandy Court, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
P Memorial Plaque, On War Memorial, Memorial Park, Coventry, West Midlands
P Memorial Plaque, Stanley Hollis VC Statue, Linthorpe Road, Middlesborough, North Yorkshire
P Victoria Cross Paving Stone, by War Memorial, Euston Road, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
By The Way…
In the late 1930s a story was circulated, that Henry Tandey could have killed Adolf Hitler in 1918, the story started with Adolf Hitler himself, later to be found untrue
VC Held By
Green Howards Regiment Museum, Trinity Church Square, The Market Place, Richmond, Yorkshire, England
BORN 15 March 1891
DIED 20 December 1977 AGE 86
VC Won 28 September 1918 AGE 27
Place VC Won Marcoing, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
