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Regiment: Duke of Cornwall's Light Inf.
Died: 23 March 1918 aged 35 in France. Killed in action at Ham-sur-Somme.
Battle: German Spring Offensive. Cemetery: Ham British Cemetery, Muille Villette II A 7
Son of J. Walter Tyacke, Tenderah, Helston. b. 1883.
Shell—Lower VI.
Solicitor (Honours) 1907. Great War, 2nd Lieutenant Duke of Cornwall's L.I. 1914; Captain. 5th Bn. Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry.
Husband of Phoebe Mary Cicely Tyacke, of Breage Vicarage, Helston, Cornwall.
Children: David Neal Hugh Tyacke and Stephanie Constance Phoebe Tyacke.
'His life at Malvern was uneventful as far as School records go. His heart as a boy was mainly with his Cornish home surroundings. He followed the traditions of his family—an old Cornish family—in being exceedingly tall, and Nature seemed to have exhausted herself under the effort, as far as School contests were concerned. But the spirit was willing enough, as he showed by taking a commission in his County Regt., the D.C.L.I., the first week that war was declared.' (Malvernian, Jun 1918).
In the church of St Breaca in Shute Hill, Cornwall, there is a stylised brass plaque which states he fell in action near Verlains, Ham.IWM Plaque
Service record:WO 374/70096