Major Donald Fraser Callander OBE MC & Bar (22 July 1918 – 5 April 1992) was one of the last serving British Army officers to lead his men into battle wearing the kilt.

This was followed by the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, and in January 1939 he was commissioned into the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders,[3] He was posted to his regiment's 1st Battalion, then commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Wimberley.

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.

In May 1945 he joined the army Staff College in Quetta India as GSO 2 at the Tactical School, where he served until 1947 when he became Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General (DAQMG) at the War Office in London.

[12] 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.