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2 unusual facts about Donald Callander


Donald Callander

He received his first Military Cross as an “immediate award for courage and leadership” at La Bassée where, as commander of the battalion's anti-tank platoon, equipped only with three Hotchkiss guns Ordnance QF 2 pounders, they knocked out 21 German tanks from Rommel's 7th Panzer Division, while protecting the retreat of the allies to the beaches during the Battle of Dunkirk.

As well as training for jungle warfare against the Japanese he was in-charge of the Company guarding Nehru at Ahmednagar Fort.



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