Received the following e-mail
from Bruce 'Connie' Francis... Hi Rick,
Seen this on the HMAS Vampire FB page, not sure if you or any of the other on Skilled Hands have seen it. It was posted by Ian Crowe.
"It is with sadness that I advise that old MOBI mate Richard (Dick) Galloway crossed the bar on Tuesday morning at 3:03am.
Dick has had a long 20 year battle with Parkinson’s Disease and lost his brave fight with family beside him.
Dick spent a few years on the Bat in the early 70’s before moving over to the submarine life. RIP old buddy.
A service for Dick will be in Lithgow at the end of next week and friends are all invited.
Ian Crowe"
Cheers
Connie
Thanks for the 'heads-up' Connie... My initial checking in Chapter 31 (Intake Lists) of 'Skilled Hands At Sea' in our RAN SH Library produced a listing for AA Galloway as a Member of the 4th MOBI Intake of January '58, which I presumed was Richard, albeit the initials
of AA didn't correspond, something not all that uncommon with earlier print runs of the book...
But then to add to my confusion, I found an RR Galloway as a Member of the 25th MOBI Intake of July, '68, whose initials did match, so I
must assume that this is the Richard 'Dick' Galloway referred to by Ian Crowe (in the same Intake,) in the HMAS Vampire FB page, which
puts him in his mid-to-late 60's, another MOBI taken too young...
Hopefully some of our Members can shed more light on the life of Richard 'Dick' Galloway..?
