Brig. Galloway retires

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32880, 1 April 1972, Page 18

Brig. Galloway retires

Aftei many vears service ' in the Territorial Force, Brigadier L T. Galloway, rector of St Andrew’s College, has retired from the post of Territorial Adviser to the Army General Staff. He has been an associate member of the Army Board since 1968. 1 Brigadier Galloway en-' listed in the Territorial Force « on December 1, 1937, and I served in the ranks of the 1 Wellington Regiment until commissioned in 1939. He < transferred to the New Zea- < land Scottish Regiment in 1 1941, and then served with 1 the 36th Battalion, 2nd N.Z.- i ET., in the Pacific, and then I in the Middle East with the 1 25th Battalion. i When the Territorial Force i was reactivated in 1948, j: Brigadier Galloway volunteered for service and was posted to the Ist Armoured Car Regiment (New Zealand Scottish). He became commanding officer in 1956, and in 1959 was promoted to colonel, and appointed commander, 4th Armoured Brigade. In 1960, he was promoted to brigadier and appointed commander, 2nd Infantry Brigade. After a major reorganisation of the New Zealand Army in 1961, Brigadier Galloway was appointed deputy commander, 2nd Infantry Brigade Group. He became commander of the Logistic Support Group in 1964. ■ Athl«tic».—The Otago athlete, B. A. Hunter, failed for the second time this week to get below the Olympic qualifying time for the 800 metres when he ran Imin 4g.2sec for th» distance on Thursday night. The standard is Imin 47.55ec.