The White Defence League (WDL) was a British neo-Nazi political party. Using the provocative marching techniques popularised by Oswald Mosley, its members included John Tyndall.
White Defence League
John Tyndall (far-right activist)
John Hutchyns Tyndall was a British fascist political activist. A leading member of various small neo-Nazi groups during the late 1950s and 1960s, he was chairman of the National Front (NF) from 1972 to 1974 and again from 1975 to 1980, and then chairman of the British National Party (BNP) from 1982 to 1999. He unsuccessfully stood for election to the House of Commons and European Parliament on several occasions.
Tyndall addressing a Nationalist Alliance meeting in 2005
In his youth, Tyndall read and was influenced by Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf.
Tyndall was one of the British neo-Nazis who established links with their American counterpart George Lincoln Rockwell (pictured).
A National Front (NF) march during the 1970s, the precursor movement from which the British National Party (BNP) emerged by 1982