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JASON CALDER >> Lieutenant Colonel Jason Calder.
I have served with the Gordon Highlanders, the Highlanders and the Royal Regiment of Scotland.
ANTHONY CALDER >> Brigadier Tony Calder and I served all my service with the Royal Anglian Regiment.
NICHOLAS CALDER >> Nicholas Calder. Major. And I've served with 5 SCOTS, The Royal Regiment of Scotland
and also the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
ANTHONY CALDER >> My father was a member of the Armed Forces, a regular career in the Suffolk Regiment.
He had an uncle who was a vet in the Royal Army Veterinary Corps.
And on my mother's side it was mainly Navy.
On my wife's side I married into very much a military family as well.
Her father was a gunner, a lieutenant colonel, served in the War.
Her uncle... two uncles, one - General Sir Timothy Creasey - was also a Royal Anglian,
originally a Royal Norfolk.
And he was my commanding officer for two years, when I was in Aden and also in Germany.
She also had another uncle who was in the Royal Artillery, full career.
He was captured in Singapore and spent four years in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp.
And her grandfather was also a Royal Norfolk, a lieutenant colonel when he finished, George Creasey.
So my sons have a father, grandfather (or two grandfathers) and a great-grandfather
serving in the Army.
So we have quite a wide variety of... and I mustn't forget, of course, they've
got two uncles that served in the Fusiliers.
So my unfortunate father-in-law had four daughters, three of whom married into the Army,
all of whom were infantry.
And there's always a big rivalry between infantry and artillery, so he was greatly outnumbered,
much to his chagrin.