After Sutcliffe died in April 2001, aged 77, some of his ashes were scattered on his beloved Carisbrook during a private service and the remainder were buried beneath the turf in a small urn.
With the future of Carisbrook uncertain, the Otago Cricket Association approached the Sutcliffe family with the idea of relocating the ashes to the University Oval.
The family agreed but Otago cricket has been unable to find the urn.
Gallaway, who played alongside Sutcliffe for Otago, was at the service when the ashes were interred and revealed the spot selected for the final resting place was the place where the great left-hander took one of his most memorable catches.
Shortly after Sutcliffe arrived in Dunedin from Auckland, he became a hero, cracking back-to-back centuries against the MCC in the summer of 1946-47. Gallaway was the Otago wicketkeeper in that game and was in awe of the batsman.
But it was not just Sutcliffe's feat with the bat which left an impression; he took a memorable catch to dismiss Bill Edrich.
Tearing around the boundary in dark and gloomy light, Sutcliffe stretched and dived to his right to snatch a stunning catch.
"It was, I can safely say, the most remarkable and wonderful catch I've ever seen," Gallaway said.
"The Otago Daily Times used nine valuable lines to describe it."
The spot the catch was taken is where the family decided to bury their father's ashes. That knowledge, though, has not made the task of finding the ashes any easier.
Otago cricket officials have poked probes into the ground and have used a sonar device and a medal detector to find the urn, but so far they have not had any luck.
