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Basic form of the Calderon coat of arms
The entrance to Fort Brockhurst (picture from Britain’s Past)
Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
Book sent to George Calderon in Russia by his mother, Christmas 1895.
Christmas 1901 Cartoon by George Calderon
Jim Corbet c. 1914
First Battle of Ypres, 29 October 1914
Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley c. 1920
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.
K.N. Das Gupta and Margaret Mitchell in an Indian Dramatic Society production of The Maharani of Arakan, 1913?
Toy theatre proscenium by George Calderon and C.E. Pym, Christmas 1914
Kittie Calderon and ‘Jones’ 1899
George and Kittie Calderon 1905
George Calderon’s Attestation
Foxwold, by James W. Herald, c.1894
Sir Richard Vincent Sutton c. 1913
Officers of the 9th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, April 1915.
Kittie Calderon ‘keeping an eye on’ Pym and Lubbock children at Foxwold, c.1912
Michel and Vera Fokine in “Scheherazade”, 1914 (The Music And Theatre Library of Sweden, creative commons)
‘Le bain de Loti’ 1906, photographed probably by Alexander Vasilieff
Figure from Gauguin’s 1899 painting ‘Tahitian Women with Mango Blossoms’ (left); George Calderon’s pencil sketch ‘Manu’ (right)
‘Marae’ — pencil sketch by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
Fragment of a letter from George’s father to his maternal grandmother, 2 December 1868
Device designed by Kittie Calderon for covers of George Calderon Selected Works
First page of Calderon’s draft letter to the press, 5 October 1914
Commemorative Poem, 2015 © John Pym, 2015
Nina Astley (Corbet), c.1917
George Calderon c.1901
The Third Battle of Krithia Related
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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 →