Colin Callander

Sir Colin Callander
Sir Colin Callander
Birth name	Colin Bishop Callander
Born	13 March 1897; Ilminster, Somerset, England
Died	31 May 1979 (aged 82)[1]; Cranbrook, Kent, England[2]
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1915–1957
Rank	Lieutenant-General
Unit	Royal Munster Fusiliers; Leicestershire Regiment
Commands held	1/5th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment; 159th Infantry Brigade; 54th (East Anglian) Infantry Division; 76th Infantry Division; 4th Infantry 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 (13 March 1897 – 31 May 1979) was a senior British Army officer who went on to be Military Secretary.

Military career

Educated at Ilminster Grammar School,[3] Callander was commissioned into the Royal Munster Fusiliers in 1915 during the First World War.[4] He transferred to the Leicestershire Regiment in 1922[4] and went to the North West Frontier in India in 1938.[4]

He served during the Second World War becoming General Officer Commanding (GOC) 54th (East Anglian) Infantry Division in May 1943 and GOC 76th Infantry Division in December 1943, before being assigned GOC 4th Division in Greece in December 1944.[4] In 1945 he took the unconditional surrender at Knossos of German Forces serving in Crete under General Benthag.[5]

He became GOC 2nd Division in the British Army of the Rhine in 1949 and Director General of Military Training at the War Office in 1948.[4] He was appointed Military Secretary in 1954 and retired in 1957.[4] From 1954 to 1963 he was Colonel of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment.[6]

England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1995
"Obituary". The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 2 June 1979. p. 12.
"Ilminster Grammar School". Archived from the original on 26 July 2008.
"Colin Callander". Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
Beevor, Antony (2005). Crete: The Battle and the Resistance. John Murray. p. 176. ISBN 978-0-7195-6831-2.
"The Leicestershire Regiment". regiments.org. Archived from the original on 8 January 2007. Retrieved 9 July 2016.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

Military offices
Preceded by Charles Wainwright	GOC 54th (East Anglian) Infantry Division May–December 1943	Succeeded by Cyril Lomax (as GOC East Anglia District)
Preceded by William Ozanne	GOC 76th Infantry Division 1943–1944	Succeeded by John Utterson-Kelso
Preceded by Alfred Dudley Ward	GOC 4th Infantry Division 1945–1946	Succeeded by Ernest Down
Preceded by Philip Balfour	GOC 2nd Division 1949–1951	Succeeded by Basil Coad
Preceded by Sir Euan Miller	Military Secretary 1954–1957	Succeeded by Sir Hugh Stockwell
Preceded by Harold Pinder	Colonel of the Royal Leicestershire Reginent 1954–1963	Succeeded by Sir Douglas Kendrew

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