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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.

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 ensign in the

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, in May 1855. He became lieutenant of that regiment in 1857; captain 96th Regiment of Foot 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 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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at Buckingham Palace on 24 October 1902. From 1919 to his death he 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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, Brecknockshire,

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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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