Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Lawrence Tyndall "Taffy" Walwyn (1883–1959) was a

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officer of the

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who received the

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. His son was the race horse trainer

Peter Walwyn Peter Tyndall Walwyn, (1 July 1933 – 7 December 2017) was a British racehorse trainer. He was based at stables in the Lambourn, Berkshire, area and enjoyed his period of greatest success in the mid-1970s when he was British flat racing Cha ...

. Walwyn was commissioned into the Carmarthen Artillery Militia in June 1901, and transferred to the regular army as a second lieutenant in the

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on 24 December 1902. In 1922, he was appointed as the first commandant of the new Army School of Equitation.John Board, ''Horse and Pencil'' (C. Johnson, 1950), p. 36

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* Royal Artillery officers Recipients of the Military Cross Companions of the Distinguished Service Order 1883 births 1959 deaths Officers of the Order of the British Empire

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