Colin Callander

Sir Colin Callander
Born	1897
Died	1979 (aged 81 or 82)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1915 - 1957
Rank	Lieutenant General
Commands held	4th Division 2nd Division
Battles/wars	World War I World War II
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire Military Cross

Lieutenant General Sir Colin Bishop Callander KCB KBE MC (1897–1979) was a senior British Army officer who went on to be Military Secretary.

Military career

Educated at Ilminster Grammar School,^[1] Callander was commissioned into the Royal Munster Fusiliers in 1915 during World War I.^[2] He transferred to Leicestershire Regiment in 1922^[2] and went to the North West Frontier in India in 1938.^[2] He served in World War II and was General Officer Commanding 4th Division in Greece in December 1944.^[2] In 1945 he took the unconditional surrender at Knossos of German Forces serving in Crete under General Benthag.^[3]

He became General Officer Commanding 2nd Division in the British Army of the Rhine in 1949 and Director General of Military Training at the War Office in 1948.^[2] He was appointed Military Secretary in 1954 and retired in 1957.^[2]

References

1. ^ Ilminster Grammar School
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
3. ^ Crete: The Battle and the Resistance Antony Beevor, Page 176 Published by John Murray, 2005, ISBN 978-0719568312

Military offices
Preceded by Alfred Dudley Ward	General Officer Commanding the 4th Division 1945–1946	Succeeded by Ernest Down
Preceded by Philip Balfour	General Officer Commanding the 2nd Division 1949–1951	Succeeded by Basil Coad
Preceded by Sir Euan Miller	Military Secretary 1954–1957	Succeeded by Sir Hugh Stockwell

Persondata
Name	Callender, Colin
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Date of birth	1897
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Date of death	1979
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