Ernest Tandy

Colonel Ernest Napper Tandy CMG DSO (13 May 1879 – 6 May 1953) was a British Army officer who played first-class cricket for Somerset in 1904 and 1905. He also played one first-class match for MCC in 1908.

Cricket career

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 MCC 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.

Military career

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 SS Canada in early February 1900. He was mentioned in Sir Redvers Buller's report to Lord Roberts on the campaign: "2nd Lieutenant E. N. Tandy, No. 2 Company, Western Division, R.G.A., was specially mentioned to me for his services when detached with two 12-pr. Q.F. guns with a column under Lieut.-Colonel E. C. Bethune, 16th Lancers."