in Leamington Spa, is named after him. It was originally a workshop and builders yard of Mr. G.F.Smith, who built St. Marks Church and Vicarage. A blue plaque was installed outside the Angel Hotel where Henry Tandey was born and at St Peter's School. Medals Tandey donated his medals to the Duke of Wellington's Regiment Museum in Halifax, West Yorkshire. On special occasions and parades he would sign them out to wear. During the last period that he had signed them out, he died. Unaware that the medals should have been returned to the museum, the medals were auctioned at Sotheby's in London by his wife and a private collector subsequently purchased them. They were presented to the Green Howards Regimental Museum (the regiment in which he had earlier served), by Sir Ernest Harrison OBE, at a ceremony in the Tower of London on 11 November 1997, twenty years after Tandey died. A copy of Tandey's Victoria Cross is now displayed at the Green Howards Regimental Museum in Richmond, North Yorkshire. Along with others, the original VC is kept in a local bank vault. On 6 June 2006 The Green Howards and the Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment amalgamated with the Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire to form the Yorkshire Regiment. Notes References General Monuments to Courage (David Harvey, 1999) The Register of the Victoria Cross (This England, 1997) VCs of the First World War - The Final Days 1918 (Gerald Gliddon, 2000) External links Location of grave and VC medal (Warwickshire) How a Right Can Make A Wrong (First World War Article, an Urban Myth – see this article's Talk Page) 1891 births 1977 deaths People from Leamington Spa Duke of Wellington's Regiment soldiers British Army personnel of World War I British World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross British people of World War II Recipients of the Distinguished Conduct Medal Recipients of the Military Medal Green Howards soldiers British Army recipients of the Victoria Cross Burials at Masnieres British Cemetery Military personnel from Warwickshire