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The entrance to Fort Brockhurst (picture from Britain’s Past)
Book sent to George Calderon in Russia by his mother, Christmas 1895.
‘Le bain de Loti’ 1906, photographed probably by Alexander Vasilieff
The Third Battle of Krithia
Sir Richard Vincent Sutton c. 1913
Foxwold, by James W. Herald, c.1894
Kittie Calderon ‘keeping an eye on’ Pym and Lubbock children at Foxwold, c.1912
K.N. Das Gupta and Margaret Mitchell in an Indian Dramatic Society production of The Maharani of Arakan, 1913?
George Calderon c.1901
Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
Jim Corbet c. 1914
Christmas 1901 Cartoon by George Calderon
‘Marae’ — pencil sketch by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
George Calderon’s Attestation
Toy theatre proscenium by George Calderon and C.E. Pym, Christmas 1914
Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
Fragment of a letter from George’s father to his maternal grandmother, 2 December 1868
George and Kittie Calderon 1905
Nina Astley (Corbet), c.1917
Michel and Vera Fokine in “Scheherazade”, 1914 (The Music And Theatre Library of Sweden, creative commons)
Commemorative Poem, 2015 © John Pym, 2015
Kittie Calderon and ‘Jones’ 1899
Basic form of the Calderon coat of arms
First Battle of Ypres, 29 October 1914
Figure from Gauguin’s 1899 painting ‘Tahitian Women with Mango Blossoms’ (left); George Calderon’s pencil sketch ‘Manu’ (right)
Officers of the 9th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, April 1915.
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.
Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley c. 1920
Device designed by Kittie Calderon for covers of George Calderon Selected Works
First page of Calderon’s draft letter to the press, 5 October 1914Related
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23/3/16. I have now revised 92% of the typescript of my book. I shall tackle the last two chapters, which cover Kittie’s life 1915-50, after Easter. One reason for leaving them till then is that there are two pieces of … Continue reading
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Calderonia is an experiment in biography through a blog. It tells the story of George and Kittie Calderon’s lives from 30 July 1914 to 30 July 1915 from day to day as it happened, but exactly 100 years afterwards. It therefore … Continue reading →