[citation needed] Instead, the oba issued an edict barring all British officials and traders from entering Benin territories.

Gallwey was attached as a political officer to the staff of the British Field Force during the Aro-Anglo war from November 1901 until March 1902 and was mentioned in despatches by the High Commissioner to Southern Nigeria.

[2] Gallwey was in November 1902 appointed as governor and commander-in-chief of the island of Saint Helena,[3][4] where he revived capital punishment.

A speech in 1915 in which Galway suggested that trade unionists should be conscripted and sent to the front was widely criticised and gave local cartoonists a field day.

Galway managed to dissuade Peake from this scheme, and the war memorial was built in a corner of the grounds of Government House.

[5] Galway's appointment was not renewed when it expired in 1920; although he was liked by the Adelaide establishment, he had been a spectacularly controversial governor, and the Colonial Office did not give him another post.