Lieutenant-Colonel H.W. Tyler
7th Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers
Born on 7 March 1909 in Honiton, Devon, Hugh William Tyler was a Territorial Army officer commissioned into the South Wales Borderers in 1929. He was promoted to captain in 1938, and had served widely before the war including in Japan, Palestine, China, India and Northern Ireland. At the start of the Second World War, he was attached to the headquarters staff of 8th Division.
