Despite the charms of Skeggy, Lincolnshire was still something of a golfing outpost and the Union of Lincolnshire Golf Clubs did not hold its first members’ professional championship until 1913 at Torksey, an event in which Tom finished 2nd.

After the war, the golf correspondent of the Sheffield Daily Telegraph surveyed the local clubs in April 1919 and wrote that North Shore had lost its professional, Gallop, killed in the Dardanelles and required a new one. Perhaps he had been to a few too many golfing dinners and forgotten that, although Gallop was killed in the war, it was after he left the club, not in the Dardanelles and had been replaced by Arthur Ham who was hale and hearty.

The Boston Guardian of 4 April 1914 announced Gallop’s departure for Vancouver and reported he had been presented with an inscribed gold watch and ‘purse of gold’ by the members.

He went, in fact to the south of Vancouver Island and the oldest golf club in North America west of the Mississippi, Victoria GC. After a couple of years, from here, he attested with the Royal Flying Corps on 8 October 1917 and joined the RFC in Toronto eleven days later.

During training, as Air Mechanic 3rd Class, he died in the base hospital on 29 March 1918 and is buried in Toronto (St John’s Norway) Cemetery.

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