Frank McCallum

Brigadier Frank McCallum, CIE, OBE, MC, DL (11 March 1900 – 14 July 1983) was a British Indian Army officer, landowner and local politician of Scottish descent.

Early life

Frank McCallum was born on 11 March 1900, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Donald McCallum, of Edinburgh, an officer in the Royal Army Service Corps. He was educated at George Watson's College, before entering the Royal Military College. In 1932, he married Sybilla Mary de Symons, OBE. She was a daughter of General Sir George Barrow, GCB, KCMG, and they had two sons, one of whom died before his father. In 1961, their son George de Symons McCallum married Jennifer Cleland, daughter of Kenneth Cleland, of Bedford Park, London.

Career

Indian Army McCallum was commissioned into the British Army as an unattached second lieutenant on 20 December 1918; he was commissioned into the British Indian Army at the same rank on 31 March 1919, and was promoted to lieutenant that December. The same year, McCallum served in the Third Afghan War, and subsequently in the North-West Frontier (1920–21, 1923, 1936 and 1937–39).

For his service in the North-West Frontier, McCallum received the Military Cross (1923) and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (1936); he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1947. McCallum died on 14 July 1983.

Archives British Library, Asian and African Studies Department (Mss Eur D1114): papers of Brig. Frank McCallum (1900–1983), 9th Gurkha Rifles, 1918–48; of his father-in-law General Sir George de Symons Barrow (1864–1959), Indian Army, 1886–1929; and of Sybilla, Lady Barrow.