TULLOCH, Eric William
| Service Number: | Officer |
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| Enlisted: | 23 January 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Major |
| Last Unit: | 12th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Ballarat, Victoria, Australia , 16 April 1883 |
| Home Town: | Richmond (V), Yarra, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Brewer (Fosters Brewery) |
| Died: | Murdered by intruder to his house, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia , 8 May 1926, aged 43 years |
| Cemetery: |
Brighton General Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: | Lindisfarne Officers of the 12th Battalion Pictorial Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 23 Jan 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Captain, Officer, 11th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 22 Feb 1915: | Involvement Captain, 11th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Itonus embarkation_ship_number: A50 public_note: Incorrectly recorded as Eric William Tullock | |
| 22 Feb 1915: | Embarked Captain, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Itonus, Fremantle | |
| 9 Jun 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Captain, 11th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, GSW left thigh As captain in the 11th Battalion, he landed at Gallipoli on 25 April. He was wounded that day while achieving his objective, the southern slopes of Battleship Hill, and was probably the closest officer to enemy lines until repelled | |
| 1 Oct 1915: | Transferred AIF WW1, Captain, 1st Division Headquarters | |
| 25 Mar 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Captain, 70th Infantry Battalion | |
| 8 Oct 1918: | Transferred AIF WW1, Captain, 12th Infantry Battalion, As commanding officer | |
| 18 Oct 1918: | Promoted AIF WW1, Major, 12th Infantry Battalion, As commanding officer | |
| 3 Jun 1919: | Honoured Military Cross, "The Last Hundred Days", On 23 August 1918 near Chuignolles he commanded two companies and captured Froissy Wood. | |
| 17 Jun 1919: | Honoured Military Cross and bar, "The Last Hundred Days", As temporary Major in 12th Infantry Battalion on 18 September at Hargicourt, near Villeret, with two others Tulloch overpowered and captured the crews of two enemy machine-guns. | |
| 29 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Major, 12th Infantry Battalion |
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From Dictionary of Australian Biography
Capt, Temp Major EW Tulloch by PC Dane
Eric William Tulloch (1883-1926), brewer, soldier and rower, was born on 16 April 1883 at Ballarat, Victoria, eldest son of William George Tulloch, brewer, and his wife Agnes Ann, née Wheeldon, both Ballarat born. Educated at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School (1897-99), he represented the school in football and rowed in the first eight and four. In 1901-02 he won the Victorian Champion VIII's title for the Albert Park Rowing Club and in 1902-04 represented the State in the victorious interstate eight-oared crew.
After studying brewing under Auguste de Bavay, bacteriologist of the Foster Brewery, Melbourne, Tulloch was brewer at R. Marks & Co., Maldon, Victoria, in 1904-06. For the next two years he was head brewer at the Swallow Brewery, Perth. In that city on 15 April 1908 at St John's Anglican Church he married Lillian Jane Temby.
A commissioned officer in the Citizen Military Forces, Tulloch joined the Australian Imperial Force in January 1915. As captain in the 11th Battalion, he landed at Gallipoli on 25 April. He was wounded that day while achieving his objective, the southern slopes of Battleship Hill, and was probably the closest officer to enemy lines until repelled.
Recovering in Australia, he was posted in October 1917 to France where he was gassed in the second battle of Passchendaele and fought on the Somme at Cappy. On 23 August 1918 near Chuignolles he commanded two companies and captured Froissy Wood; on 18 September at Hargicourt, near Villeret, with two others Tulloch overpowered and captured the crews of two enemy machine-guns. He was given command of the 12th Battalion and awarded the Military Cross and Bar. Appointed officer-in-charge of the rowing section, sports branch, in February 1919, Tulloch coached the A.I.F. crew which won the King's Cup at Royal Henley.
On his return Tulloch took up a senior position at the Victoria Brewery where he worked until his death. He was an original member of Legacy and was gazetted in 1921 lieutenant-colonel, 22nd Battalion, Commonwealth Military Forces. He coached the Melbourne Grammar first eight which won the Head of the River in 1923 and finished second in 1924. That year he was appointed to the Old Melburnians council.
Early on the morning of 8 May 1926 he disturbed an intruder in his room at the boarding house, Lauriston Hall, East Melbourne. During a struggle Tulloch was fatally shot. No motive for the killing could be established and the identity of the murderer has never been discovered. Tulloch's funeral was conducted with full military honours. After a service at Melbourne Grammar chapel, the procession, more than a mile long, proceeded to Brighton cemetery by way of St Kilda Road which was lined by thousands of people. His wife, who had been in Sydney receiving medical treatment, survived him; they had no children.
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