<P> In addition to his major awards Tandey had also been Mentioned in Despatches on five occasions . He was personally decorated by King George V at Buckingham Palace on 17 December 1919 . </P> <P> Tandey returned to Leamington and married . In 1940, during the Coventry Blitz, his home was bombed by the Luftwaffe . A journalist approached him outside his bombed Coventry home, asking him about his alleged encounter with Hitler . "If only I had known what he would turn out to be," Tandey is quoted as saying . "When I saw all the people and women and children he had killed and wounded I was sorry to God I let him go ." However, there is no evidence, not even anecdotal, he was either hounded or avoided after the claims . </P> <P> Tandey became a Police sergeant at the Standard Triumph Works, Fletchamstead a position he held for 38 years . </P> <P> Tandey died in 1977, childless, at the age of 86 . At his request, he was cremated and his ashes buried in the Masnieres British Cemetery at Marcoing, France, on 23 May 1978, by his undertaker Pargetter and Son . Due to French laws it was not permissible for his ashes to be scattered, or any form of ceremony or commemoration made to him . </P>

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