Desmond Tuck

Captain Desmond Adolph Tuck was an English officer of the Royal Air Force who served during the First World War.
He was born on 27 March 1889, the son of German-born Sir Adolph and Jeanette Tuck (née Flatau), of London. His father was the director of Raphael Tuck & Sons, a publisher of postcards. Tuck was educated at Clifton and King's College, and entered the family business. 
Tuck, who had been commissioned in the 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) in 1910The London Gazette (28356), p. 2493. 12 April 1910, thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 17 July 2015., was mobilised on the outbreak of war in 1914. With his regiment, Tuck served in the Gallipoli Campaign until its evacuation to Egypt. He later transferred to the Salonica Front, where he became attached to the French Service Aéronautique and reportedly worked with Louis Noël.British Market, Volume 51, p. 4. His intelligence operations from the air, which resulted in two crashes, was recognised with the awarding of the Croix de Guerre.Anglo-American News, Volume 21, p. 155. He later transferred to the Royal Flying Corps as a flight commander and was later was said to be engaged in work relating to German U-Boats.British Market, Volume 54, p. 174.
After the war, he became chairman and managing director of the family company. The Stationery Trades' Journal remarked that under Tuck the company's artists continued to 'meet the taste of the public with marked success'.The Stationery Trades' Journal, p. 14. Tuck retired in the 1950s and died on 25 June 1974.
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