One of twenty-five manuscript and typescript transcript letters written to his mother by Pte Sydney W Tyler, 1st (or Royal) Dragoons, December 1906- August 1914.
Associated with World War One (1914-1918).

Tyler did his intial training with the Reserve Squadron of the Scots Greys in Edinburgh, before joining the Royal Dragoons in India (Lucknow 1907-1910, Muttra 1911). At the end of 1911 they reached Pretoria, later moving to Potchefstroom (1913) and in the last letter he described their preparation for active service. He was an enthusiastic member of the Good Templars and from 1911 acted as a regimental schoolmaster.