Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel R. M. G. Tulloch, Royal West Kent Regiment, who served in the Boer War, was twice wounded and awarded the D.S.O. in the Great War and was murdered during the Mau Mau rebellion

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lt., 2/R.W. Kent Rgt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Lt., Rl. W. Kent Rgt.) both suspensions re-pinned, edge bruising, contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £450-500

D.S.O. London Gazette 18 February 1915.

M.I.D. London Gazette 19 October 1914 & 17 February 1915.

Richard Murray Gregorie Tulloch was born on 20 May 1878, the youngest of five sons of General Sir Bruce Tulloch, K.C.B., C.M.G. He was commissioned into the Royal West Kent Regiment in September 1897 and was promoted to Lieutenant in January 1899. He served with the regiment in the Boer War, participating in operations in Orange Free State, April-May 1900; operations in the Orange River Colony, May 1900-September 1901, including actions at Biddulphsberg and Wittebergen, 1-29 July 1900; operations in Cape Colony, south of the Orange River, 1900; operations in Transvaal, September-November 1901; operations in the Orange River Colony, November 1901-April 1902, and operations on the Zululand Frontier of Natal, September-October 1901. Promoted to Captain in 1904, he was Adjutant of the Regiment, November 1907-August 1909 and Adjutant of the Special Reserves, August 1910-January 1912.

Serving with the 1st Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment, he served with the B.E.F. as officer commanding “D” Company. He entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 15 August 1914. He was wounded in the head at Le Cateau on 27 August 1914. Returning to England briefly to recover, he returned to his regiment on 18 September 1914. He later participated in the battle of Neuve Chapelle and was badly wounded when a shell burst close by him. He was again invalided to England to recover. For his services in these early actions, he was twice mentioned in despatches and awarded the D.S.O. Promoted to Major in May 1915, he was G.S.O.2 and G.S.O.3, employed at the training centre at Ripon, June 1915-April 1916. He was G.S.O.2 64th Division, Home Forces, September 1916-March 1917 and G.S.O.2 11th Army Corps, May-July 1917 and Chief Instructor at the Instructional School at Berkhampstead, May-July 1918. During July 1918-July 1920 he was G.S.O.2 at the Training School at Berkhampstead and was Chief Instructor of History and Tactics at the R.M.A., July 1920-August 1922. For his continued wartime services he was given the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel on 3 June 1919. He retired from the Army in 1923.

In the later 1920’s he emigrated to Kenya. On 9 October 1952, he and his wife were attacked in their home at Kinankop, 10 miles from Nairobi, situated on the edge of the Kikuyu Reserve, by a gang of five Africans armed with long knives - Colonel Tulloch being killed in the attack. Sold with a bound folder containing research on the recipient and the Tulloch family.