Reg Callender

Reginald Henry Callender was an English amateur footballer who played in the Football League for Derby County and Glossop as an outside left. He represented the England amateur national team.

Personal life

Callender attended Fitzwilliam and St John's Colleges and was a Cambridge Blue. Prior to the First World War, he worked as a teacher. On 4 December 1914, three months after the outbreak of the First World War, Callender was commissioned as a temporary second lieutenant in the Durham Light Infantry. He was deployed to France in August 1915 and was killed accidentally while explaining the mechanisms of a grenade in Nord on 5 October 1915. He was buried in Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentières.