Major General Sir Alexander Bruce Tulloch, (2 September 1838 – 26 May 1920) was a

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officer who served as military commandant for the

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, a war correspondent and an author.

Military career

Tulloch was born in

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, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Tulloch. He was educated at

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, and entered the army as an ensign in the 1st Foot, in May 1855. He became lieutenant of that regiment in 1857; captain

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in 1864; captain

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in 1866; brevet major in 1877; major

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in 1881; brevet lieutenant colonel in 1882; lieutenant colonel Welsh Regiment in 1883; colonel in the army in 1886, and was placed on half-pay in 1888. He was appointed Commandant of the Victorian Military Forces with the local rank of major general, on 20 September 1889. In 1890, Tulloch founded the

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(RUSI) of Victoria, a security and defense think tank. He based it on the RUSI in London, of which he was a member. In 1892, he presided over the commission appointed by the

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Government to inquire into the military condition of that colony. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the

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in the

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list published on 26 June 1902, and invested as such by King

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on 24 October 1902. Due to economic conditions in the 1890s, Tulloch chose to resign as commandant to make way for a less costly commandant. He left Melbourne in 1894. From July 1918 until his death, Tulloch was the colonel of the

. Tulloch was a ''Times'' war correspondent in

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in 1904 and 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''. After retirement Major General Tulloch lived quietly at Glaslyn Court,

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, where he died in 1920.

Family

Tulloch was married twice, first in 1865 to Arabella Healis, daughter of Stephen Healis. He had five sons, including Sylvester Stephen Gregorie Tulloch, who lived in India.

References

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