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==Early life==
==Early life==
The son of Edward Ord Tandy, he was born in [[British India]] at [[Ludhiana|Loodianah]]. His elder brother was [[Edward Aldborough Tandy]] (who was [[Surveyor General of India]] from 1924–1928),<ref>{{cite news| work = Civil & Military Gazette (Lahore) |date= 30 January 1929 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003221/19290130/100/0007 | access-date =31 March 2026 | title = Brigadier E. A. Tandy | page=7}}</ref><ref name=OCT>{{cite news| work = Civil & Military Gazette (Lahore) |date= 16 January 1929 |title = Col. O.C. Tandy's work for India |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003221/19290116/189/0014  | access-date =31 March 2026 | page=14}}</ref> his younger brother was [[Ernest Tandy]] (who also served in the [[British Army]] and became a [[first-class cricket]]er). They were descended from [[James Napper Tandy]], an Irish revolutionary and a founder of the [[United Irishmen]].<ref name="HERO">{{cite web|url=https://ourheroes.southdublin.ie/Serviceman/Show/17415|title=Lieutenant Colonel (T.) Maurice O'Connor Tandy|website=www.ourheroes.southdublin.ie|access-date=15 November 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Tandy was educated in England at [[Tonbridge School]],<ref>{{cite book|title=The Register of Tonbridge School, from 1820 to 1886|first=Walter Oldham|last=Hughes-Hughes|date=1886|publisher=I. I. Beecroft|page=212|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u5RQAAAAYAAJ|language=en}}</ref> before attending the [[Royal Military Academy, Woolwich]], where he had the distinction of winning the double bugle whilst a cadet.<ref name="HERO"/> He graduated from there into the [[Royal Engineers]] (RE) as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]] in July 1893.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26428|date=1 August 1893|page=4356}}</ref>
The son of Edward Ord Tandy, he was born in [[British India]] at [[Ludhiana|Loodianah]]. His elder brother was [[Edward Aldborough Tandy]] (who was [[Surveyor General of India]] from 1924–1928),<ref name=OCT>{{cite news| work = Civil & Military Gazette (Lahore) |date= 16 January 1929 |title = Col. O.C. Tandy's work for India |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003221/19290116/189/0014  | access-date =31 March 2026 | page=14}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| work = Civil & Military Gazette (Lahore) |date= 30 January 1929 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003221/19290130/100/0007 | access-date =31 March 2026 | title = Brigadier E. A. Tandy | page=7}}</ref> his younger brother was [[Ernest Tandy]] (who also served in the [[British Army]] and became a [[first-class cricket]]er). They were descended from [[James Napper Tandy]], an Irish revolutionary and a founder of the [[United Irishmen]].<ref name="HERO">{{cite web|url=https://ourheroes.southdublin.ie/Serviceman/Show/17415|title=Lieutenant Colonel (T.) Maurice O'Connor Tandy|website=www.ourheroes.southdublin.ie|access-date=15 November 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Tandy was educated in England at [[Tonbridge School]],<ref>{{cite book|title=The Register of Tonbridge School, from 1820 to 1886|first=Walter Oldham|last=Hughes-Hughes|date=1886|publisher=I. I. Beecroft|page=212|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u5RQAAAAYAAJ|language=en}}</ref> before attending the [[Royal Military Academy, Woolwich]], where he had the distinction of winning the double bugle whilst a cadet.<ref name="HERO"/> He graduated from there into the [[Royal Engineers]] (RE) as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]] in July 1893.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26428|date=1 August 1893|page=4356}}</ref>


==Military and surveying career==
==Military and surveying career==
Tandy was posted to [[British India]] in the Military Works Department in October 1893.<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book|title=The India Office and Burma Office List|date=1928|publisher=[[Harrison and Sons]]|location=[[High Wycombe]]|page=833|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zVkKAAAAIAAJ|language=en}}</ref> He was promoted to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] in July 1896,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26767|date=11 August 1896|page=4573}}</ref> prior to being appointed as an assistant-superintendent in the [[Survey of India]] (SoI) in January 1900.<ref name="BOOK"/> Later in 1900, he made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the [[Europeans cricket team]] against the [[Parsis cricket team|Parsees]] at [[Deccan Gymkhana Ground|Poona]] in the 1900–01 [[Bombay Quadrangular|Bombay Presidency Match]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14683/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Maurice Tandy|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=15 November 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for a single run in the Europeans first innings by [[Maneksha Bulsara]], while in their second innings he scored an [[not out|unbeaten]] 64 runs batting at [[Batting order (cricket)#Lower order or tail|number eleven]], sharing in a 114 runs stand for the tenth wicket with [[William Drysdale]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5588.html|title=Europeans v Parsees, Bombay Presidency Match 1900/01|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=15 November 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Tandy served in the [[Aden Protectorate]] in 1903 and 1904,<ref>{{cite book|title=Debrett's Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage|first=Walter Oldham|last=Hughes-Hughes|date=1921|publisher=[[Dean & Son]]|location=[[London]]|page=1934|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=430rhznNVhoC|language=en}}</ref> and was appointed to be a deputy-superintendent in the SoI in March 1910.<ref name="BOOK"/> Three years later, in July 1913, he was promoted to [[Major (United Kingdom)|major]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28740|date=25 July 1913|page=5323}}</ref>
Tandy was posted to [[British India]] in the Military Works Department in October 1893.<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book|title=The India Office and Burma Office List|date=1928|publisher=[[Harrison and Sons]]|location=[[High Wycombe]]|page=833|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zVkKAAAAIAAJ|language=en}}</ref> He was promoted to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] in July 1896,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26767|date=11 August 1896|page=4573}}</ref> prior to being appointed as an assistant-superintendent in the [[Survey of India]] (SoI) in January 1900.<ref name="BOOK"/> Later in 1900, he made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the [[Europeans cricket team]] against the [[Parsis cricket team|Parsees]] at [[Deccan Gymkhana Ground|Poona]] in the 1900–01 [[Bombay Quadrangular|Bombay Presidency Match]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14683/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Maurice Tandy|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=15 November 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for a single run in the Europeans first innings by [[Maneksha Bulsara]], while in their second innings he scored an [[not out|unbeaten]] 64 runs batting at [[Batting order (cricket)#Lower order or tail|number eleven]], sharing in a 114 runs stand for the tenth wicket with [[William Drysdale]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5588.html|title=Europeans v Parsees, Bombay Presidency Match 1900/01|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=15 November 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Tandy served in the [[Aden Protectorate]] in 1903 and 1904,<ref>{{cite book|title=Debrett's Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage|first=Walter Oldham|last=Hughes-Hughes|date=1921|publisher=[[Dean & Son]]|location=[[London]]|page=1934|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=430rhznNVhoC|language=en}}</ref> and was appointed to be a deputy-superintendent in the SoI in March 1910.<ref name="BOOK"/> Three years later, in July 1913, he was promoted to [[Major (United Kingdom)|major]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28740|date=25 July 1913|page=5323}}</ref>


Tandy served with the REs during the [[First World War]], being wounded in action at the [[Battle of Loos]] in 1915. Following his recovery, he was employed with [[tank]]s and went to Mesopotamian in 1916.<ref name="HERO"/> It was for his service in the [[Mesopotamian campaign]] that he was awarded the [[Distinguished Service Order]] (DSO) in February 1918 and [[mentioned in dispatches]];<ref name="NEWS">{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001445/19180216/025/0002|title=Local items|work=Drogheda Argus and Leinster Journal|location=[[Drogheda]]|page=2|date=16 February 1918|access-date=14 November 2023|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30514|date=5 February 1918|page=1801|supp=y}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30570|date=8 March 1918|page=3114|supp=y}}</ref> his two brothers also received the DSO during the war.<ref name="NEWS"/> A month prior to the end of the war, he was appointed an acting [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|lieutenant colonel]],<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30609|date=2 April 1918|page=4080|supp=y}}</ref> later relinquishing the rank following the war, in April 1919.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=31436|date=4 July 1919|page=8510|supp=y}}</ref> He was made an [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] in the [[1919 Birthday Honours (OBE)|1919 Birthday Honours]],<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=31374|date=30 March 1919|page=6962|supp=y}}</ref> and shortly after served in the [[Third Anglo-Afghan War]] from May to August 1919, during which he was mentioned in dispatches.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{London Gazette|issue=32002|date=30 July 1920|page=8056|supp=y}}</ref> He was promoted to [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|lieutenant colonel]] in January 1921,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=32179|date=1 January 1921|page=14}}</ref> with his appointment to superintendent in the SoI following in October 1924. Two years later, he was appointed as a director, initially as Director of Frontier Surveys.<ref name="BOOK"/><ref name=OCT/> He was promoted to [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|lieutenant colonel]] in January 1921 and to [[Colonel (United Kingdom)|colonel]] in December 1927.<ref name="ReferenceA"/><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33338|date=16 December 1927|page=8053}}</ref> Tandy retired from the RE and the SoI in December 1928, at which point he was granted the honorary rank of [[Brigadier (United Kingdom)|brigadier]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33451|date=28 December 1928|page=8539}}</ref>
Tandy served with the REs during the [[First World War]], being wounded in action at the [[Battle of Loos]] in 1915. Following his recovery, he was employed with [[tank]]s and went to Mesopotamian in 1916.<ref name="HERO"/> It was for his service in the [[Mesopotamian campaign]] that he was awarded the [[Distinguished Service Order]] (DSO) in February 1918 and [[mentioned in dispatches]];<ref name="NEWS">{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001445/19180216/025/0002|title=Local items|work=Drogheda Argus and Leinster Journal|location=[[Drogheda]]|page=2|date=16 February 1918|access-date=14 November 2023|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30514|date=5 February 1918|page=1801|supp=y}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30570|date=8 March 1918|page=3114|supp=y}}</ref> his two brothers also received the DSO during the war.<ref name="NEWS"/> A month prior to the end of the war, he was appointed an acting [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|lieutenant colonel]],<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30609|date=2 April 1918|page=4080|supp=y}}</ref> later relinquishing the rank following the war, in April 1919.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=31436|date=4 July 1919|page=8510|supp=y}}</ref> He was made an [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] in the [[1919 Birthday Honours (OBE)|1919 Birthday Honours]],<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=31374|date=30 March 1919|page=6962|supp=y}}</ref> and shortly after served in the [[Third Anglo-Afghan War]] from May to August 1919, during which he was mentioned in dispatches.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{London Gazette|issue=32002|date=30 July 1920|page=8056|supp=y}}</ref> He was promoted to [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|lieutenant colonel]] in January 1921,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=32179|date=1 January 1921|page=14}}</ref> with his appointment to superintendent in the SoI following in October 1924. Two years later, he was appointed as a director, initially as Director of Frontier Surveys.<ref name=OCT/><ref name="BOOK"/> He was promoted to [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|lieutenant colonel]] in January 1921 and to [[Colonel (United Kingdom)|colonel]] in December 1927.<ref name="ReferenceA"/><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33338|date=16 December 1927|page=8053}}</ref> Tandy retired from the RE and the SoI in December 1928, at which point he was granted the honorary rank of [[Brigadier (United Kingdom)|brigadier]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33451|date=28 December 1928|page=8539}}</ref>


Upon his return to the United Kingdom, he became an instructor of surveying at [[Worcester College, Oxford|Worcester College]] at the [[University of Oxford]] for thirteen years.<ref name="GEO">{{cite journal|journal=The Geographical Journal|date=1942|publisher=[[Royal Geographical Society]]|location=London|page=288|volume=99–100|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1788871?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents|access-date=30 March 2026|title=Obituary: Colonel Maurice O'Connor Tandy, D.S.O., O.B.E., Late R.E.|language=en}}</ref> Tandy lived his final years in [[Oxford]] at his residence on the [[Banbury Road]],<ref>{{cite book|title=Europa|publisher=Europa Publications Limited|location=London|page=809|volume=2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m05IAQAAIAAJ|language=en}}</ref> where he died following a short illness in April 1942.<ref name="GEO"/>
Upon his return to the United Kingdom, he became an instructor of surveying at [[Worcester College, Oxford|Worcester College]] at the [[University of Oxford]] for thirteen years.<ref name="GEO">{{cite journal|journal=The Geographical Journal|date=1942|publisher=[[Royal Geographical Society]]|location=London|page=288|volume=99–100|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1788871?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents|access-date=30 March 2026|title=Obituary: Colonel Maurice O'Connor Tandy, D.S.O., O.B.E., Late R.E.|language=en}}</ref> Tandy lived his final years in [[Oxford]] at his residence on the [[Banbury Road]],<ref>{{cite book|title=Europa|publisher=Europa Publications Limited|location=London|page=809|volume=2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m05IAQAAIAAJ|language=en}}</ref> where he died following a short illness in April 1942.<ref name="GEO"/>

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Maurice Tandy
Personal information
Full nameMaurice O'Connor Tandy
Born17 November 1873
Loodianah, Punjab Province,
British India
Died18 April 1942(1942-04-18) (aged 68)
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
BattingUnknown
RelationsErnest Tandy (brother)
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1900/01Europeans
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 1
Runs scored 65
Batting average 65.00
100s/50s –/1
Top score 64*
Catches/stumpings 1/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 13 November 2023

Maurice O'Connor Tandy Template:Postnominal (17 November 1873 – 18 April 1942) was an Irish first-class cricketer and British Army officer. He was best known for his 28-year service with the Survey of India, in which he served as a director from 1926 to 1928, on his retirement he was Director of the Geodetic Branch at Dehra Dun.[1]

Early life[edit | edit source]

The son of Edward Ord Tandy, he was born in British India at Loodianah. His elder brother was Edward Aldborough Tandy (who was Surveyor General of India from 1924–1928),[1][2] his younger brother was Ernest Tandy (who also served in the British Army and became a first-class cricketer). They were descended from James Napper Tandy, an Irish revolutionary and a founder of the United Irishmen.[3] Tandy was educated in England at Tonbridge School,[4] before attending the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, where he had the distinction of winning the double bugle whilst a cadet.[3] He graduated from there into the Royal Engineers (RE) as a second lieutenant in July 1893.[5]

Military and surveying career[edit | edit source]

Tandy was posted to British India in the Military Works Department in October 1893.[6] He was promoted to lieutenant in July 1896,[7] prior to being appointed as an assistant-superintendent in the Survey of India (SoI) in January 1900.[6] Later in 1900, he made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Europeans cricket team against the Parsees at Poona in the 1900–01 Bombay Presidency Match.[8] Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for a single run in the Europeans first innings by Maneksha Bulsara, while in their second innings he scored an unbeaten 64 runs batting at number eleven, sharing in a 114 runs stand for the tenth wicket with William Drysdale.[9] Tandy served in the Aden Protectorate in 1903 and 1904,[10] and was appointed to be a deputy-superintendent in the SoI in March 1910.[6] Three years later, in July 1913, he was promoted to major.[11]

Tandy served with the REs during the First World War, being wounded in action at the Battle of Loos in 1915. Following his recovery, he was employed with tanks and went to Mesopotamian in 1916.[3] It was for his service in the Mesopotamian campaign that he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in February 1918 and mentioned in dispatches;[12][13][14] his two brothers also received the DSO during the war.[12] A month prior to the end of the war, he was appointed an acting lieutenant colonel,[15] later relinquishing the rank following the war, in April 1919.[16] He was made an OBE in the 1919 Birthday Honours,[17] and shortly after served in the Third Anglo-Afghan War from May to August 1919, during which he was mentioned in dispatches.[18] He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in January 1921,[19] with his appointment to superintendent in the SoI following in October 1924. Two years later, he was appointed as a director, initially as Director of Frontier Surveys.[1][6] He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in January 1921 and to colonel in December 1927.[18][20] Tandy retired from the RE and the SoI in December 1928, at which point he was granted the honorary rank of brigadier.[21]

Upon his return to the United Kingdom, he became an instructor of surveying at Worcester College at the University of Oxford for thirteen years.[22] Tandy lived his final years in Oxford at his residence on the Banbury Road,[23] where he died following a short illness in April 1942.[22]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Col. O.C. Tandy's work for India". Civil & Military Gazette (Lahore). 16 January 1929. p. 14. Retrieved 31 March 2026.
  2. ↑ "Brigadier E. A. Tandy". Civil & Military Gazette (Lahore). 30 January 1929. p. 7. Retrieved 31 March 2026.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Lieutenant Colonel (T.) Maurice O'Connor Tandy". www.ourheroes.southdublin.ie. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  4. ↑ Hughes-Hughes, Walter Oldham (1886). The Register of Tonbridge School, from 1820 to 1886. I. I. Beecroft. p. 212.
  5. ↑ "No. 26428". The London Gazette. 1 August 1893. p. 4356.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 The India Office and Burma Office List. High Wycombe: Harrison and Sons. 1928. p. 833.
  7. ↑ "No. 26767". The London Gazette. 11 August 1896. p. 4573.
  8. ↑ "First-Class Matches played by Maurice Tandy". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  9. ↑ "Europeans v Parsees, Bombay Presidency Match 1900/01". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  10. ↑ Hughes-Hughes, Walter Oldham (1921). Debrett's Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage. London: Dean & Son. p. 1934.
  11. ↑ "No. 28740". The London Gazette. 25 July 1913. p. 5323.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Local items". Drogheda Argus and Leinster Journal. Drogheda. 16 February 1918. p. 2. Retrieved 14 November 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  13. ↑ "No. 30514". The London Gazette (Supplement). 5 February 1918. p. 1801.
  14. ↑ "No. 30570". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 March 1918. p. 3114.
  15. ↑ "No. 30609". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 April 1918. p. 4080.
  16. ↑ "No. 31436". The London Gazette (Supplement). 4 July 1919. p. 8510.
  17. ↑ "No. 31374". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 March 1919. p. 6962.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 "No. 32002". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 July 1920. p. 8056.
  19. ↑ "No. 32179". The London Gazette. 1 January 1921. p. 14.
  20. ↑ "No. 33338". The London Gazette. 16 December 1927. p. 8053.
  21. ↑ "No. 33451". The London Gazette. 28 December 1928. p. 8539.
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 "Obituary: Colonel Maurice O'Connor Tandy, D.S.O., O.B.E., Late R.E." The Geographical Journal. 99–100. London: Royal Geographical Society: 288. 1942. Retrieved 30 March 2026.
  23. ↑ Europa. Vol. 2. London: Europa Publications Limited. p. 809.

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