Robert Thomas John Galbally (18 January 1921 – 14 April 2004) was a doctor and

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er. He attended St Patrick's College and studied medicine at the

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. He graduated in 1944. He first worked at Melbourne's St Vincent's Hospital then for a few months in general practice with his brother-in-law at

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before moving to a practice at

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. After 30 years, he moved the practice to East Camberwell until he retired in 2000.

Football

Galbally played 8 games with the Collingwood in 1944 in the

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(VFL). He ended the season as tied leading goalkicker, having scored 26, the same as

Lou Richards Lewis Thomas Charles "Lou" Richards (15 March 1923 – 8 May 2017) was an Australian rules footballer who played 250 games for the Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1941 and 1955. He captained the team f ...

Family

Galbally was the seventh of nine children of William and Eileen Galbally. Two of his brothers, Jack Galbally MLC and

Frank Galbally Francis Eugene Joseph "Frank" Galbally (13 October 192212 October 2005) was an Australian criminal defence lawyer. Early life and education Galbally was born in 1922, the eighth of nine children of William Galbally and Eileen Cummins, who bo ...

, also played for Collingwood and were criminal lawyers. Sister Kathleen Galbally was an

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and brother Bryan Galbally a specialist in intensive care. He married Joan Collins in 1945 and they had nine children.

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