Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Horace and Mary Tyers. The 1911 census records for Weed's Cottages, Uppingham, Rutland. Horace Tyers, head of the family and married for 24 years, a General Farm Labourer, born 1856 in Uppingham, Rutland, and his wife Mary, born 1862 in Preston, Rutland, also Fred Amos, son, single and a Builder's Carter born 1889, John Thomas, son, single and a Bricklayers Labourer, born 1891, Harry, son, single and a General Farm Labourer, born 1895, Horace, son, single and a Coal Carters Boy, born 1898, May Elizabeth, daughter, single and a Schoolgirl, born 1901, Daisy, daughter, single and a Schoolgirl, born 1901, Elsie, daughter, single and a Schoolgirl, born 1903 and Bessie, daughter, single and a Schoolgirl, born 1904, all eight children were born in Uppingham, Rutland. Prior to enlisting he had been engaged as a farm labourer, he embarked for France on the 27th of July 1916 and fought on the Somme, he was killed in action at Thiepval Wood, France.

Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Photograph taken from the Rutland Remembers website and submitted by S. Hathaway, 2018