21 Facts About Alexander Galloway

Alexander Galloway later commanded the 4th Indian Infantry Division at the Battle of Monte Cassino during the Italian Campaign in early 1944.

Alexander Galloway was promoted to lieutenant in May 1915, and saw action at Gallipoli, in Egypt and Palestine, and on the Western Front.

Alexander Galloway was awarded the Military Cross in 1918.

Alexander Galloway attended the Staff College, Camberley for a year from January 1928 and graduated in December 1929.

Alexander Galloway returned to the Staff College, Camberley in February 1937 July 1938 as an instructor, and several of his fellow instructors would rise to prominence in the war.

Alexander Galloway was promoted to major in December 1933 and was made brevet lieutenant-colonel in January 1935.

At the outbreak of the Second World War Alexander Galloway was commanding the 1st Battalion The Cameronians.

Alexander Galloway replaced Neil Ritchie, who had assumed command of Eighth Army.

Alexander Galloway's rank was upgraded from an acting one to a temporary one in December 1942 and, in July 1943, he was appointed to command 1st Armoured Division which was re-fitting in North Africa having fought through the North Africa campaign since the Battle of Gazala the year before.

Alexander Galloway arrived to take temporary command on 8 March 1944, in time for the Third Battle of Monte Cassino.

Alexander Galloway's division had to be withdrawn, having sustained some 3,000 casualties during its time at Cassino, and Alexander Galloway returned to 1st Armoured Division.

In May 1944 1st Armoured Division was moved to Italy but Alexander Galloway saw no action with his division as, in poor health as a result of his time at Cassino, he was shipped back to the UK in mid-August to recuperate.

In early 1945, returned to good health, Alexander Galloway spent a month in command of 3rd Infantry Division while Lashmer Whistler took leave.

Alexander Galloway was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1946 New Year Honours.

Alexander Galloway was Commander-in-Chief Malaya Command from 1946 to 1947, and British High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief British Troops Austria from October 1947 to 21 January 1950.

In July 1951, Alexander Galloway was appointed director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in Jordan.

Alexander Galloway was unusually blunt for one in a diplomatic role, which created friction between his office and the host government, and with the British Legation in Amman.

Successive retelling of this quote over the intervening years has resulted in some instances of Alexander Galloway's identity being lost and the quote erroneously attributed to a UNRWA employee, Ralph Alexander Galloway.

Alexander Galloway continued in critical vein covering not only Arab states but the UNRWA itself as well as the refugees.

In 1954 Alexander Galloway assumed a position as a public relations director and manager for the Costain engineering and construction firm and retired in 1964.

Alexander Galloway married Dorothy Haddon White in 1920, with whom he had three sons.