A Broken Man

Joseph Tyler has led a very interesting life, a life that has virtually taken him around the world and back again. He was a long-term career soldier who joined the army as a boy at the age of fifteen. Throughout his thirty-year military career, he worked hard and played hard, which gained him credibility, earning him many promotions until he retired in 1992 as a major. He has always strived to help those less fortunate than himself and devoted much of his spare time in helping raise much-needed funds for many charities and organisations. His literary talents have in the past resulted in him writing articles for 'The Angling Times,' 'The Sea Angler,' and 'The Boat Angler' magazines, along with many charity journals. In 1994, he also wrote 'Fishing Marks for the Sea Angler: Selsey Bill to Anvil Point'. Following his retirement from the army, he has written another book, 'How We Built the Gambia Army'. The title doesn't fully depict what the book is about, as he also writes about the many in-country charitable events that he led whilst serving in West Africa. He has written this book as a personal plight, not realising that his then-wife, Sally-Ann, had fallen out of love with him. He was blinded by the signs and signals, which, in the end, he realised were there all along. He, having carried out so much research to help him come to terms with his situation, has chosen again to think of others by releasing his story and research in the hope that, as he states, 'if [he] can help prevent one person from going through the pain and anguish which [he has] gone through, then [he] will feel that [he has] achieved what [he] set out to do'.