Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of George and Mary Tyler. Before the outbreak of war he had been employed by the Earl of Ancaster on the Hardwicke Farms. He enlisted in the Leicestershire Regiment, but was later transferred to the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment, and embarked for Ireland with his Battalion in order to quell the Irish Rebellion, it was here that he was killed by an enemy sniper, his death being instantaneous.