John Walter Graham Tulloch

John Walter Graham Tulloch CB (2 November 1861 9 May 1934) was a British soldier and diplomat who served with the Indian Army and other British army forces in Africa and Asia.

Career

Tulloch was first commissioned 11 August 1880 and appointed to the Indian Army 11 Oct 1882; and he had risen to the rank of Major in 1900.[1]

In 1901, Colonel Tulloch led a force of Baluchi (Indian), Australian (naval), and Japanese troops at Kaoli-yung in China.[2]

In 1905, he was a military attaché posted to the British legation in Tokyo. In this period, he was joined by other officers from other parts of the British Empire, including Captain Alexander Bannerman, Captain Berkeley Vincent,[3] Captain Arthur Hart-Synnot.[4] and Captain Herbert Cyril Thacker.[5]

Tulloch was an observer with Japanese forces during the Russo-Japanese War;[6] and his reports were forwarded to London.[7]

As of 18 October 1907, Tulluch was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General.[8]

As of 1 May 1908 he was promoted Major-General and he retired on the 1 April 1912.[9]

Honors

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Notes

  1. Addison, Henry Robert et al. (1907). Who's Who, Vol. 59, p. 1776, p. 1776, at Google Books
  2. "The Chinese Trouble," The Advertiser (Adelaide, South Australia). 10 January 1901, p. 5.
  3. Merchant Networks (Anglo-Australian genealogy website): 28. "Sir Bart, merchant, Brown. Shipley and Co Brown Alexander Hargreaves-55317"
  4. Towle, Philip. (1982). Estimating Foreign Military Power, p. 131., p. 131, at Google Books
  5. Hitsman, J. Mackay and Desmond Morton. "Canada's First Military Attache: Capt. H. C. Thacker in the Russo-Japanese War," Military Affairs, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Oct., 1970), pp. 82-84; "Report No. 14,", Directorate of History, Canadian Forces Headquarters, 8 September 1967.
  6. Towle, Philip. (1998). "Aspects of the Russo-Japanese War: British Observers of the Russo-Japanese War," p. 23. Paper No. IS/1998/351. STICERD, LSE.
  7. 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, Vol. 3, p. 629., p. 629, at Google Books
  8. 8.0 8.1 Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, Royal United Service Institution. (1908). "Military Notes," Journal of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, Vol. LII, No. 359, p. 266., p. 266, at Google Books
  9. Supplement to the Indian Army List January 1930
  10. "Whitehall (Order of the Brilliant Star of Zanzibar)," Edinburgh Gazette, 3 March 1897, p. 207.

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