The son of the late Thomas C. and Margaret Callender. He was a native of Durham.

Keith Callender has submitted the following:-

I have visited Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery on a number of occasion but my latest visit in July / August this year 2023 was a particular poignant one.

I had acquired a family group of medals to the Callender Family and part of this group was the Death Penny and WWI trio to Christopher Pescod Callender of the Royal Fusiliers who died of wounds aged 19yrs and is buried in this cemetery. He is also remembered on your NEWMP site in relation to the Bishop Auckland War Memorial. Although there are no names on the Memorial a local newspaper published the list of casualties in 1922 at the time of the Memorial's unveiling. Unfortunately the surname of Christopher was misspelt.

Also in the group were the WWI trio to his brother Thomas Spoors Simpson Callender and a QSA Medal and Metropolitan Police Medal to his Uncle, Calverley Simpson Callender.

Thomas Crossland Callender and his brother Calverley Simpson Callender were born in County Durham in the North East of England at Stockton on Tees and Norton respectively. Calverley was the older of the two brothers and servedin the Life Guards during the Boer War. Both brothers moved to London and joined the Metropolitan Police.

Whilst in London Thomas Crossland Callender and his wife Mary Ann had two sons Thomas the eldest and Christopher the youngest. The 1911 census shows the two brothers and their mother living in the Derby Hotel, Tenter Street, Bishop Auckland, Co Durham. The pub at the time was run by the boys' Aunty.

When war broke out both brothers enlisted. The older brother Thomas joined a North East Regiment, The Northumberland Fusiliers. Christopher joined the Royal Fusiliers which was a City of London Regiment.

It appears that when he enlisted he was under age so I am assuming that he may have been unsuccessful if he had tried to follow his brother by enlisting locally.

Christopher Pescod Callender died of his wounds on the 10th August 1917 and he was buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery near Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

On the 1st August 2023 I took Christopher's Medals and Death plaque to Belgium and placed them in front of his headstone.

Christopher Pescod Callender is remembered at Bishop Auckland on B140.03 and B140.05 both as Callander