Charles Tucker

Lieutenant general Sir Charles Tucker, (6 December 1838 – 22 December 1935) was a British Army officer during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Early life and family Tucker was born at The Hall, Ashburton, Devon, son of Robert Tucker, and was educated at Marlborough College. He married first, in 1865, Matilda Frederica Hayter (died 1897), daughter of John Hayter, Painter-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria, and secondly, in 1902, Nelly O'Connell, only daughter of Sir Maurice O'Connell, 2nd Bt. Military career Commissioned into the 22nd Foot in 1855, in November 1860 Tucker transferred to the 80th Staffordshire volunteers, with whom he served in the Bhutan expedition (1865) and the Perak War (1875). He first came to prominence during the Zulu War when, as a major, he commanded the Fort at Kopje Allein in 1879. Later that year he commanded the 80th Regiment in operations against the Zulus, and was promoted lieutenant-colonel and appointed a companion of the Order of the Bath (CB).