Major-General John Walter Graham Tulloch (2 November 1861 – 9 May 1934), was a highly-decorated British Army officer, who served with the Indian Army and as a military attaché.
General Tulloch distinguished himself on active service during many campaigns throughout East Africa, Persia, Afghanistan, India and the Far East in the late 19th century.
Career Of Scottish descent, he was the eldest son of Surgeon-General John Tulloch MD (1830–1906) by his wife Lucy née Cosserat (died 1912). His eldest sister Lucy (who died 1947) married Bengal Staff Corps officer, Colonel Charles John Dennys (1852–1928).www.burkespeerage.com
Tulloch was commissioned on 11 August 1880 and entered into the Indian Army on 11 October 1882; he had risen to the rank of major in 1900.Addison, Henry Robert et al. (1907). In 1901, Colonel Tulloch led a force of Indian troops, Australian marines, and the Imperial Japanese Army at Kaoli-yung in China. "The Chinese Trouble," The Advertiser (Adelaide, South Australia). 10 January 1901, p. 5. In 1905, he was a military attaché posted to the British legation in Tokyo. During this period, he was joined by other officers from other parts of the British Empire, including then-Captains Alexander Bannerman, Berkeley Vincent,Merchant Networks (Anglo-Australian genealogy website): 28. "Sir Bart, merchant, Brown. Shipley and Co Brown Alexander Hargreaves-55317" Arthur Hart-Synnot.Towle, Philip. (1982). and Herbert Cyril Thacker.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.
Tulloch was an observer with Japanese forces during the Russo-Japanese War;Towle, Philip. (1998). Paper No. IS/1998/351. STICERD, LSE. and his reports were forwarded to London.Great Britain War Office, General Staff. (1908). On 18 October 1907, Tulloch was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general.Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, Royal United Service Institution. (1908). On 1 May 1908 he was promoted to major-general before retiring on the 1 April 1912.Supplement to the Indian Army List January 1930
Honours : Officer, Order of the Brilliant Star of Zanzibar, 1896 "Whitehall (Order of the Brilliant Star of Zanzibar)," Edinburgh Gazette, 3 March 1897, p. 207. : Commander, Order of the Rising Sun, 1904 : Companion of the Order of the Bath, 1906.
See also Military attachés and observers in the Russo-Japanese War
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References Who's Who (1907). Vol. 59. London: A&C Black. OCLC 1162806 Burke, John and Burke, Sir Bernard. (1914). Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the 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). Paper No. IS/1998/351. STICERD, LSE. Sisemore, James D. (2003). "The Russo-Japanese War, Lessons Not Learned." U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.