Frank McCallum (Indian Army officer)

Brigadier Frank McCallum, CIE, OBE, MC, DL (11 March 1900 – 14 July 1983) was a British Indian Army officer, landowner and local politician of Scottish descent.

She was a daughter of General Sir George Barrow, GCB, KCMG, and they had two sons, one of whom died before his father.

[1] Promotion to captain on 20 December 1924 was followed by an appointment as aide-de-camp to the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Eastern Command, India (October 1927 to March 1928).

[4] McCallum was a general staff officer in the Meerut District from 1940 to 1941, before serving in Iraq, Persia and Syria over the course of World War II and in 1946.

In the meantime, he was a general staff officer with the 8th Indian Division between 1941 and 1943 and, following promotion to brigadier in 1943, he commanded a brigade until 1946.