Charles Walwyn
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Lawrence Tyndall "Taffy" Walwyn DSO OBE MC (1883–1959) was a British Army officer of the First World War who received the Military Cross. His son was the race horse trainer Peter Walwyn.[1]
Walwyn was commissioned into the Carmarthen Artillery Militia in June 1901, and transferred to the regular army as a second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 24 December 1902.[2]
In 1922, he was appointed as the first commandant of the new Army School of Equitation.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Peter Walwyn | Register | The Times & The Sunday Times". Thetimes.co.uk. 7 November 2017. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
- ^ "No. 27508". The London Gazette. 23 December 1902. p. 8842.
- ^ John Board, Horse and Pencil (C. Johnson, 1950), p. 36
External links
[edit]- "Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Lawrence Tyndall Walwyn, DSO, OBE, MC". Geni.com. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
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