Colin Callander

Lieutenant General Sir Colin Bishop Callander KCB KBE MC (13 March 1897–1979) was a senior British Army officer who went on to be Military Secretary.

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

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. He was appointed Military Secretary in 1954 and retired in 1957.