Timothy Tyler
{{Short description|British Army general}}
{{For|the American inmate of the same name|Timothy L. Tyler}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}}
{{Use British English|date=April 2018}}
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Major-General Timothy Nicholas Tyler CB is a former Quartermaster-General to the Forces.
Military career
Tim Tyler was commissioned into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers in 1972.{{London Gazette|issue=45809|supp=y|page=12513|date=24 October 1972}}
In 2003 he was selected to be Deputy Commander of the Iraq Survey Group, a team which had the onerous task of searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.[http://ccw.modhist.ox.ac.uk/publications/newsletter_ht09.pdf Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War] Oxford University
In 2004 he was appointed Deputy Adjutant-General{{London Gazette|issue=57297|supp=y|page=6504|date=25 May 2004}} and in 2006 he was appointed Director-General Logistics (Land) and then Director-General Land Equipment as well as Quartermaster-General to the Forces.{{London Gazette|issue=57881|supp=y|page=989|date=24 January 2006}} He retired in 2008.{{London Gazette|issue=58912|supp=y|page=19636|date=16 December 2008}}
He was also Colonel Commandant of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers from 1 March 2005,{{London Gazette|issue=57571|supp=y|page=2471|date=1 March 2005}} and the Corps of Army Music from 1 October 2005{{London Gazette|issue=57807|supp=y|page=14370|date=8 November 2005}} to 31 October 2009.{{London Gazette |issue=59231 |date=3 November 2009 |page=18945 |supp=y }}
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Category:British Army major generals
Category:Companions of the Order of the Bath
Category:Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers officers
Category:British Army personnel of the Iraq War