Colin Callander
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Sir Colin Callander | |
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| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Branch | British Army |
Service years | 1915–1957 |
Rank | Lieutenant-General |
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| Unit | Royal Munster Fusiliers Leicestershire Regiment |
| Commands | 2nd Division (1949–1951) 4th Infantry Division (1945–1946) 76th Infantry Division (1943–1944) 54th (East Anglian) Infantry Division (1943) 159th Infantry Brigade (1941–1942) 1/5th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment (c. 1940) |
Conflicts | First World War North West Frontier Second World War |
| Awards | Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire Military Cross Mentioned in DespatchesLua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. |
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Lieutenant-General Sir Colin Bishop Callander, KCB, KBE, MC (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,[3] and West Buckland School.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
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.[4][5] 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.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. The citation for his MC reads:
Remaining in the army during the interwar period, Callander transferred to the Leicestershire Regiment in 1922,[5] and married the following year.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. After attending the Staff College, Camberley from 1933 to 1934,[6] he was promoted to major in 1936Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. and went to the North West Frontier in India in 1938,[5] for which he was mentioned in despatches.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
Callander served during the Second World War, where his rise in rank was rapid. He commanded first the 1/5th Battalion of the Leicestershire Regiment, followed by a brief period from April to May 1941 as the acting commander of the 148th Independent Infantry Brigade, his battalion's parent formation, which was then followed by his promotion to the acting rank of brigadier in July that year, upon assuming command of the 159th Infantry Brigade.[7] Holding this position from August 1941 to May 1942, his next appointment was an 11-month stint as a Brigadier General Staff (BGS) of Western Command before becoming General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the 54th (East Anglian) Infantry Division, upon his promotion to the acting rank of major-general on 17 May 1943.[8][7] This was followed by becoming GOC 76th Infantry Division in December 1943, before being assigned GOC 4th Division in Greece in April 1945.[5] Later that year he took the unconditional surrender at Knossos of German Forces serving in Crete under Generalmajor Hans-Georg Benthack.[9]
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.[5]Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.[7] He was appointed Military Secretary in 1954 and retired in 1957.[5] He was Colonel of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment from April 1954 to May 1963.[10][7] He retired to Kent, where he spent his final years until his death in May 1979, at the age of 82.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Obituary". The Times. 2 June 1979. p. 12.
- ^ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1995
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ilminster Grammar School". Archived from the original on 26 July 2008.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.[Script error: No such module "London Gazette util". "No. 29193"]. The London Gazette (Script error: No such module "London Gazette util".). 15 June 1915. p. Script error: No such module "London Gazette util"..
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.[Script error: No such module "London Gazette util". "No. 36031"]. The London Gazette (Script error: No such module "London Gazette util".). 25 May 1943. p. Script error: No such module "London Gazette util"..
{{cite magazine}}: Check|url=value (help); More than one of|pages=and|page=specified (help)Script error: No such module "London Gazette util". - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Beevor, Antony (2005). Crete: The Battle and the Resistance. John Murray. p. 176. ISBN 978-0-7195-6831-2.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Leicestershire Regiment". regiments.org. Archived from the original on 8 January 2007. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
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Bibliography
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Smart, Nick (2005). Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen and Sword Books. ISBN 1844150496.
