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First Battle of Ypres, 29 October 1914
Book sent to George Calderon in Russia by his mother, Christmas 1895.
Fragment of a letter from George’s father to his maternal grandmother, 2 December 1868
Kittie Calderon ‘keeping an eye on’ Pym and Lubbock children at Foxwold, c.1912
George Calderon c.1901
Nina Astley (Corbet), c.1917
Christmas 1901 Cartoon by George Calderon
Kittie Calderon and ‘Jones’ 1899
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.
Michel and Vera Fokine in “Scheherazade”, 1914 (The Music And Theatre Library of Sweden, creative commons)
Sir Richard Vincent Sutton c. 1913
Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley c. 1920
‘Marae’ — pencil sketch by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
Basic form of the Calderon coat of arms
Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
Jim Corbet c. 1914
The Third Battle of Krithia
The entrance to Fort Brockhurst (picture from Britain’s Past)
First page of Calderon’s draft letter to the press, 5 October 1914
K.N. Das Gupta and Margaret Mitchell in an Indian Dramatic Society production of The Maharani of Arakan, 1913?
Device designed by Kittie Calderon for covers of George Calderon Selected Works
Toy theatre proscenium by George Calderon and C.E. Pym, Christmas 1914
Figure from Gauguin’s 1899 painting ‘Tahitian Women with Mango Blossoms’ (left); George Calderon’s pencil sketch ‘Manu’ (right)
George Calderon’s Attestation
Commemorative Poem, 2015 © John Pym, 2015
Foxwold, by James W. Herald, c.1894
George and Kittie Calderon 1905
Officers of the 9th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, April 1915.
‘Le bain de Loti’ 1906, photographed probably by Alexander Vasilieff
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The biographer blurts
Ah dear, it’s time to come clean. The ‘disaster’ has happened: this blog is now a fortnight ahead of the writing of my biography itself. I finished Chapter 14 of the biography with George going over the top on 4 … Continue reading
4 June 1915: The Third Battle of Krithia
At nine o’clock last night the 1st Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers paraded near W Beach, received a benediction from their padre, and were addressed by their commanding officer. They had been taken from the 87th Brigade and attached to … Continue reading
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‘Nothing happened’
It is a very curious thing, but in none of the sources that I have used for understanding the full military context of George’s life on Gallipoli does the date 29 May feature. Nor did he write a letter to … Continue reading
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De-appling
In my 22 January post I explained the meaning of the Edwardian verb ‘to apple’. I mentioned that five lines in George’s letter to Kittie of 10 May 1915 were ‘appled out’ and I was following up ‘forensic programmes’ for … Continue reading
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The bifurcator biffed
Faithful followers of this blog know that since last September I have been dogged by the rival claims of writing the blog and finishing the biography. The methods of each are so different that at times it’s felt schizophrenic — … Continue reading
Ruth Scurr’s exhilarating experiment
In my post of 6 March I discussed an essay by Ruth Scurr about biography that had just appeared in the Guardian Review. Her essay stirred up a whole hive of issues that the modern biographer should be aware of and needs … Continue reading
The biographer discombobulated
I am greatly entertained by Mistress Ruth Scurr’s new book John Aubrey: My Own Life. It contains 433 pages. My honoured friend Mr William Harvey warns me that I shall acquire an impostumation if I sit reading it much longer. I … Continue reading
The Arakan ‘mystery’
The other evening, I met a friend at a party who told me she had recently taken part in a reading of George’s ‘Romantic Comedy in One Act’, The Maharani of Arakan. I was amazed, as I had not heard of … Continue reading
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‘Things fall apart’
Since George Calderon’s death at noon in the Third Battle of Krithia on 4 June 1915 the timeline of this blog has frayed almost to nothingness. I understand the disorientation and even irritation of some followers who have emailed me. … Continue reading →