page_title: Donald Callander
section_title: Subsequent career and family
hierarchical_section_title: Donald Callander / Subsequent career and family
caption_attribution_description: English: family snap of Major callander greeting the queen on a Royal Visit to the Scottish War Blinded Centre at Linburn in 1975
context_page_description: Major Donald Fraser Callander OBE MC & Bar was one of the last serving British Army officers to lead his men into battle wearing the kilt.
context_section_description: During his first posting in India in 1942 he met Margaret, daughter of Andrew Geddis, who herself went on to serve in Burma and Japan with the Women's Auxiliary Service (Burma), known as the WASBs. They were ultimately married in London in 1948 and had two sons, Andrew in 1949 and Robin in 1952.
  After retiring from the army he became Public Relations and Appeals Director of The Scottish Institution for War Blinded in Edinburgh and in the Queen's Birthday Honours List of 1985, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire for his long and successful work in this field. In 1967 he became a member of the Sovereign's Bodyguard for Scotland, the Royal Company of Archers. He was a keen shot and ran a shoot in the Scottish Borders with General Sir Philip Christison. He was also a member of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers. He played regularly at Muirfield where he died suddenly in the middle of a game aged 73 in 1992.
caption: Greeting the Queen during a royal visit to the Scottish war Blinded Centre at Linburn in 1975
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