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George Calderon c.1901
K.N. Das Gupta and Margaret Mitchell in an Indian Dramatic Society production of The Maharani of Arakan, 1913?
Christmas 1901 Cartoon by George Calderon
Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
The Third Battle of Krithia
Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley c. 1920
First page of Calderon’s draft letter to the press, 5 October 1914
The entrance to Fort Brockhurst (picture from Britain’s Past)
Kittie Calderon and ‘Jones’ 1899
‘Le bain de Loti’ 1906, photographed probably by Alexander Vasilieff
‘Marae’ — pencil sketch by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
Michel and Vera Fokine in “Scheherazade”, 1914 (The Music And Theatre Library of Sweden, creative commons)
Toy theatre proscenium by George Calderon and C.E. Pym, Christmas 1914
Jim Corbet c. 1914
Figure from Gauguin’s 1899 painting ‘Tahitian Women with Mango Blossoms’ (left); George Calderon’s pencil sketch ‘Manu’ (right)
Commemorative Poem, 2015 © John Pym, 2015
Book sent to George Calderon in Russia by his mother, Christmas 1895.
Device designed by Kittie Calderon for covers of George Calderon Selected Works
Sir Richard Vincent Sutton c. 1913
First Battle of Ypres, 29 October 1914
Kittie Calderon ‘keeping an eye on’ Pym and Lubbock children at Foxwold, c.1912
Calderon family photograph, 1 January 1894. Clockwise: seated on floor George Calderon, Jack Calderon, Marge Calderon, Fred Calderon, Alfred Merigon Calderon, Evelyn Calderon, seated next to table Clara Calderon.
Fragment of a letter from George’s father to his maternal grandmother, 2 December 1868
Nina Astley (Corbet), c.1917
Officers of the 9th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, April 1915.
George and Kittie Calderon 1905
Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
Foxwold, by James W. Herald, c.1894
George Calderon’s Attestation
Basic form of the Calderon coat of armsRelated
The Author
Monthly Archives: December 2014
A biographer’s long breath
Back in September, on 27th to be precise, a former professor of American and English literature at Leeds University, Park Honan, died at the age of eighty-six. Since another former professor of English literature recently expressed to me the view … Continue reading
Another big ‘Cauldron’
Rather late in the day, I asked my research assistant to look into the eldest of George Calderon’s brothers, Alfred Merigon Calderon, who was born on 7 June 1861, seven years before George, and was known to have emigrated to … Continue reading
The next week
There is no documentary evidence for what George did between 17 and 23 December 1914, when he and Kittie left for what she described as ‘a delightful Christmas at Foxwold [Brasted, Kent] with the Pyms’. But we can be pretty … Continue reading
17 December 1914
42 WELL WALK, … Continue reading
Total war comes closer
Today, 16 December 1914, at eight in the morning, three German battleships emerged from the fog off Scarborough and from a distance of less than half a mile shelled the town. Further up the coast at about the same time, … Continue reading
‘We are not bamboozled’
About now George Calderon was informed by letter, or told to his face, that his ‘real status’ was ‘that of interpreter’, i.e. not ‘second lieutenant’ as he had disingenuously interpolated in Form M.T. 393, APPLICATION FOR A TEMPORARY COMMISSION IN … Continue reading
A different mystery, then
You may remember that under ‘A lacuna’ (27 September) and ‘Pause and enigma’ (11 October) I described my attempts to solve the ‘mystery’ of Henry Calderon, George’s second-eldest brother. He had never featured in any of George and Kittie’s extant … Continue reading
Words (Edwardian) again
There was a long news item in The Times last week headed ‘Army gallantry awards under fire’. To clarify, this was not about awards-made-under-fire, but about ‘Britain’s centuries-old military honours system’ being ‘questioned amid allegations that a second Military Cross has … Continue reading
Chronotopia cured, or ‘a biographer…writes’
In my post on 12 September, I described how writing the blog nearly every day whilst attempting to finish the book had induced a kind of schizophrenia: the blog tells the last year of George Calderon’s life day by day … Continue reading
George Calderon on wikipedia
George Calderon TLS blog post
Patrick Miles
Calderonia 
23-31 December 1914: Christmas at Foxwold
Christmas Day 1914 was a Friday. Two days before, George and Kittie Calderon, together with their Belgian refugees Jean Ryckaert and Raymond Dereume, made their way by train to Sevenoaks, where they changed for Brasted. At Brasted station they were … Continue reading →