Francis Tuker

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Sir Francis Tuker
1894 - 1967
Nickname	Gertie
Allegiance	Great Britain
Rank	Lieutenant-General
Commands held	Indian 4th Infantry Division Indian IV Corps
Awards	KCIE CB DSO OBE
Other work	Writer and Military Historian

Sir Francis Ivan Simms Tuker, KCIE CB DSO OBE was a British Indian Army officer.

Born on 4th July 1894 and educated at Brighton College, of which he was in later life a governor, Tuker served in the Indian Army and was most famous for commanding the Indian 4th Infantry Division during the Western Desert and Italian Campaigns of the Second World War.

He commanded the 4th Indian Division from 30th December 1941 to 4th February 1944 when he was given the Ceylon Army command. On 14th July 1945 he was put in command of the Indian IV Corps in Burma and held this post to the end of the war. He retired in April 1948 as a lieutenant general and died in 1967. There is a memorial tablet to him in the chapel of Brighton College, above which hangs his sword; at its dedication, the band of the Brigade of Gurkhas beat retreat on the school's playingfield.

Tuker's nickname in the army was "Gertie". He is known for a number of books on military history that he wrote; The Pattern of War, While Memory Serves and The Yellow Scarf.