"Second Lieutenant John Galloway was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Galloway, of Thames. He was an exceptionally successful student at the Thames High School, Thames School of Mines and Otago University. He graduated Bachelor of Science, and was an associate member of the Otago School of Mines. When he left New Zealand, he was a student member of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, and a member of the Royal Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, London. He left New Zealand with a railway construction unit, and was later transferred to the Divisional Engineers, where he was appointed to a commission. He served throughout the Eritrean campaign in the Sudan and in the Nile Valley." [New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24348, 10 August 1942, Page 4]