Lieutenant General Sir Francis Ivan Simms Tuker KCIE CB DSO OBE (4 July 1894 – 7 October 1967) was a senior British Indian Army officer who commanded the 4th Indian Infantry Division during the Second World War. Early life The son of William J. Sanger Tuker, of Butts Green Hall, Sandon, Essex, by his marriage to Katherine Louisa Simms, of Yew House, Twickenham, Tuker was educated at Brighton College, East Sussex, of which he was in later life a governor, and attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from 1912 to 1913. Military career Commissioned as a second lieutenant into the British Army's Royal Sussex Regiment in 1914, later that year Tuker transferred to the 2nd Gurkha Rifles of the Indian Army, in which he was commissioned as a second lieutenant on 10 October. He saw active service in the First World War and served as an acting captain from 14 March to 12 April 1916, and was promoted to the substantive rank of lieutenant on 17 August 1917, back-dated to 1 September 1915. Promoted to captain on 14 January 1918, he took part in the Kuki Punitive expedition that year and, after the war, was an officer of the North West Persia operations between 1920 and 1921. After attending the Staff College, Camberley from 1925 to 1926, Tuker was promoted to major on 14 January 1932, brevetted to lieutenant colonel on 1 July 1933, and promoted to lieutenant colonel on 1 February 1937, at which time he was appointed Commanding Officer (CO) of the 1st Battalion, 2nd Gurkha Rifles. For his part in operations in Waziristan that year, he was appointed an OBE (Mil.) on 21 December and was mentioned in dispatches in February 1938. On 27 October 1939, a month after the outbreak of the Second World War, Tuker was promoted to full colonel (with seniority from 1 July 1936). He became Director of Military Training in India in 1940. A temporary brigadier by this time, he was appointed General Officer Commanding (GOC) 34th Indian Infantry Division on 1 October 1941 with the acting rank of major-general. He took over command of the 4th Indian Infantry Division on 30 December 1941 and then commanded it during the Western Desert and Italian campaigns. Promoted to temporary major-general on 1 October 1942, he was mentioned in dispatches on 15 December 1942 and again on 24 June 1943. Promoted to major-general on