Alexander Bruce Tulloch
Major-General Alexander Bruce Tulloch CB (2 September 1838[1] – 26 May 1920[2]) was a British Army officer, who was military commandant for the then colony of Victoria (Australia). Tulloch was also a war correspondent and author.
Tulloch was born in Edinburgh,[2] the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Tulloch.[1] He was educated at Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and entered the army as ensign in the 1st Foot, in May 1855.[1] He became lieutenant of that regiment in 1857; captain 96th Regiment of Foot in 1864; captain 69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot in 1866; brevet-major in 1877; major Welch Regiment in 1881; brevet-lieut.-colonel in 1882; lieut.-colonel Welsh Regiment in 1883; and colonel in the army in 1886, being placed on half-pay in 1888.[1] He was appointed Commandant of the Victorian Military Forces, with the local rank of Major-General, on 20 September 1889.[1] Major-General Tulloch married in 1865 Arabella, daughter of the late Stephen Healis.[1] In 1892 he presided over the commission appointed by the New South Wales Government to inquire into the military condition of that colony.[1]
Tulloch was a "Times" war correspondent in Manchuria in 1904. Tulloch wrote several books including "Forty Years' Service," 'The Highland Rising of the '45", "A Soldier's Sailoring", and "Possible Battlefields in the Next European War".[2] After retirement Major-General Tulloch lived quietly at Glaslyn Court, Crickhowel, Brecknockshire, Wales.[2] Tulloch was married twice, and had a family of five sons.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Mennell, Philip (1892). . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ a b c d e "Notable Soldier Dies". Zeehan and Dundas Herald. Tas.: National Library of Australia: Trove. 28 May 1920. p. 1. Retrieved 26 August 2014.