Source: “Duty Nobly Done” page 169.
Family Search: When Company Quartermaster Sergeant David Callander was born on 17 August 1888, in Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada, his father, Alexander Callander, was 28 and his mother, Sarah Ann Drummond, was 26. He lived in Wellington, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 26, his occupation is listed as moulder, callander foundry in Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada. He died on 27 April 1962, in Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 73, and was buried in Woodlawn Memorial Park, Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada.
Brother to “Grit” Callander. Both survived the war.
Article about the family business, the Callander Foundry.
54011 C./Q./M./S. D. Callander, 18th Bn., Can. Infy.
In front of Amiens and Arras, August and September, 1918, for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. Throughout the operation mentioned he set a fine example of coolness and initiative while under fire. One on occasion, when heavy shell fire held up the distribution of rations, he reorganized the different parties and personally conducted them to their respective front-line locations. His energy at all times was untiring.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 