Colin Callander

Lieutenant-General Sir Colin Bishop Callander, (13 March 1897 – 31 May 1979) was a senior British Army officer who served as Military Secretary from 1954 to 1957.

Military career Born in Ilminster, Somerset, on 13 March 1897, Callander was educated at Ilminster Grammar School, and West Buckland School.

Shortly after the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, Callander entered the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, and, after passing out from there, was commissioned into the Royal Munster Fusiliers in June 1915. He served with his regiment on the Western Front, gaining the Military Cross (MC) in September 1916, and being wounded three times during the war. The citation for his MC reads:

Remaining in the army during the interwar period, Callander transferred to the Leicestershire Regiment in 1922, he was promoted to major in 1936 and went to the North West Frontier in India in 1938, This was followed by becoming GOC 76th Infantry Division in December 1943, before being assigned GOC 4th Division in Greece in April 1945.

Callander became Director General of Military Training at the War Office in London in 1948, and was appointed GOC 2nd Division in the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) in 1949. He retired to Kent, where he spent his final years until his death in May 1979, at the age of 82.