Career
He also played one first-class match for Master Control Console in 1908. Educated at Wellington College, Tandy was a right-handed middle-order batsman. He made his first-class cricket debut in a single match for Somerset against Sussex in 1904, scoring eight in the only innings possible in a rain-ruined game.
A year later, he reappeared in another single game, this time scoring 0 and 17 against Yorkshire.
A fairly regular player of non-first-class cricket both for Master Control Console and for other amateur sides, he played just one more first-class match and scored 26 and 30, his highest totals, in the match against Leicestershire at Lord"s in 1908. Tandy was a career army officer
He was a cadet at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and joined the Royal Artillery as a second lieutenant in February 1898. He fought in the Second Boer War, leaving Southampton for South Africa on the Steamship Canada in early February 1900.
He was mentioned in Sir Redvers Buller"s report to Lord Roberts on the campaign: "2nd Lieutenant East. North. Tandy, Number.
2 Company, Western Division, Royal Garrison Artillery, was specially mentioned to me for his services when detached with two 12-pr. Q.F. guns with a column under Lieutenant-Colonel East. C. Bethune, 16th Lancers."
By 1904, Tandy was a captain and he was appointed adjutant at the Ordnance College at Woolwich in that year. By 1915, he was a major within the Royal Artillery and the following year he was a temporary lieutenant-colonel.
The temporary elevation ended at the end of 1919 and Tandy retired from the army in 1921 and was placed in the reserve of officers with the honorary rank of brigadier-general.
He finally retired from the reserve list in 1934.