A new article in the Conversation by three members of the 'People of 1381' team, Adrian Bell, Anne Curry and Jason Sadler, describes the Medieval Soldier Database, which contains records of 290,000 soldiers paid by the English crown between 1369 and 1453. The Medieval Soldier Database is the largest searchable online database of medieval nominal data in the world: https://theconversation.com/we-built-a-database-of-290-000-english-medieval-soldiers-heres-what-it-reveals-270750 

One of the aims of the 'People of 1381' project is to use the Medieval Soldier Database to investigate how far participants in the Great Revolt of 1381 had military experience. Among the names which appear in the Soldier Database is one Walter Tyler and Adrian, Anne and Jason speculate whether this could be the leader of the 1381 revolt. This is a fascinating idea but sadly can never be proved, particularly as two Wat Tylers took part in the revolt. Apart from the celebrated leader who parleyed with the King at Smithfield, a jury in Norfolk describes how another Walter Tyler, who lived in Kettlestone near Fakenham, was a leader of the disturbances in north Norfolk: 'Walter Teler, dwelling in Kettlestone, was a chief instigator in the uprising in the area of Walsingham, and rode to the great society and also to Walsingham to tell the company there that John de Holkam  would be at the house of William, parson of Thursford, and he was a common plunderer and leader of men against the peace etc.' [TNA, KB 9/166/1 m. 73]. This could also potentially be the tiler who appears in the Medieval Soldier Database.