Brigadier Tiner left Messrs John Cave and Sons’ factory, where he was employed as a lad, to enter the Salvation Army training college in London. After his studies there he spent three years on the field in Britain and was then drafted to S America, where he did seven years missionary work.

He returned to England and married a Salvation Army officer who was stationed at Rushden. Together they were sent to the West Indies and took charge of the work in a number of divisions there—Trinidad, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Barbados. Later they served in British Honduras and British Guiana.