Alexander Bruce Tulloch


Sir Alexander Bruce Tulloch, was a British Army officer who served as military commandant for the Colony of Victoria, a war correspondent and an author.

Career

Tulloch was born in Edinburgh, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Tulloch. He was educated at Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and entered the army as ensign in the 1st Foot, in May 1855. He became lieutenant of that regiment in 1857; captain 96th Regiment of Foot in 1864; captain 69th Regiment of Foot in 1866; brevet major in 1877; major Welsh Regiment 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 New South Wales Government to inquire into the military condition of that colony. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 1902 Coronation Honours list published on 26 June 1902, and invested as such by King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 24 October 1902.
From 1919 to his death he was the colonel of the Welsh Regiment.
Tulloch was a Times war correspondent in Manchuria 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, Crickhowell, Brecknockshire, Wales, 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.