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forces in Africa and Asia.

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Tulloch was first commissioned on 11 August 1880 and was appointed to the Indian Army on 11 October 1882; he had risen to the rank of

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in 1900.Addison, Henry Robert ''et al.'' (1907). In 1901, Tulloch led a force of Baluchi (Indian), Australian (naval), and Japanese troops at Kaoli-yung in China. In 1905, he was a military attaché posted to the British legation in

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. In this period, he was joined by other officers from other parts of the

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. Tulloch was an observer with Japanese forces during the

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;

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. (1998)
"Aspects of the Russo-Japanese War: British Observers of the Russo-Japanese War," p. 23.
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.Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, Royal United Service Institution. (1908). On 1 May 1908 he was promoted to

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and he retired on the 1 April 1912.

Honors

* Brilliant Star of Zanzibar, 1895-1896. "Whitehall (Order of the Brilliant Star of Zanzibar),"
''Edinburgh Gazette,'' 3 March 1897, p. 207. *

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* Addison, Henry Robert; Charles Henry Oakes; William John Lawson; and Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen. (1907)
''Who's Who,''
Vol. 59. London: A&C Black
OCLC 1162806
* Burke, John and Bernard Burke. (1914)
''Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of peerage, baronetage and knightage.''
London: Burke's Peerage Ltd
OCLC 2790692
* Great Britain War Office, General Staff. (1908)
''The Russo-Japanese War: Reports from British Officers Attached to the Japanese and Russian Forces in the Field.''
London: H.M. Stationery Office. * Towle, Philip. (1998)
"Aspects of the Russo-Japanese War: British Observers of the Russo-Japanese War,"
Paper No. IS/1998/351. STICERD, LSE. * Sisemore, James D. (2003). Sisemore, James D. (2003).
"The Russo-Japanese War, Lessons Not Learned."

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