Major General David Noel Hugh Tyacke CB OBE (18 November 1915 – 10 February 2010) was a senior British Army officer.
[1] Tyacke was born and raised in Breage in Cornwall, where his family had been involved in tin mining since the early years of the 18th century.
[1][2] His father, Captain Charles Noel Walker Tyacke, served in the DCLI during the First World War, fighting at Ypres and Arras, before being killed near the Somme with the 5th Battalion in 1918.
[1] After a period defending Selsey Bill during the Battle of Britain, and then at Southampton under Montgomery, in 1943 Major Tyacke was posted to Burma to serve under Orde Wingate.
[2] After this, the Chindits were under the command of the US General Joseph Stilwell and Tyacke remained on the staff at Shaduzup in Burma until relieved by the 36th British Division.