Edward Callander was born in Dumfries, Scotland, UK in 1917 and raised mainly by his father, who was returned from the Great War traumatized while in the King’s Own Scottish Borderers’. Throughout his childhood he was a bit of a trouble maker. It seemed that if something happened it was “Ned” who did it. When he was old enough, he left for London in search of work. From there he left for a trip to France in 1936 and simply stayed. It was there that he joined the French Foreign Legion. He was awarded a Croix de Guerre for his part in the Battle of Narvik, 1940 in Norway, indicating that he must have been with the 13th DBLE as they were the only French unit there on the ground. It was after the withdrawal from Narvik and return to Britain that Callander chose to repatriate. He joined the RAF as a rear gunner and flew over 50 missions, including the bombing of Brest, for which he earned the Distinguished Flying Medal. His bomber was shot down in a failed raid on Stuttgart in 1942 and was taken prisoner. His prison was Stalag Luft 3. Even as a prisoner he continued to make trouble and escaped on three separate occasions. On one of these occasions he hid in a water tank for 56 hours. His last attempt ends being caught by the Gestapo and being executed in Danzig in 1944. A book entitled Fighter! Fighter! has been written about what is known about his life.