Reg Callender

Reginald Henry Callender was an English amateur footballer who played in the Football League for Derby [County F.C.|Derby County] and Glossop [North End A.F.C.|Glossop] as an outside left. He represented the England national [amateur football team|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.

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