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Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
George Calderon’s Attestation
George Calderon c.1901
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.
Foxwold, by James W. Herald, c.1894
Fragment of a letter from George’s father to his maternal grandmother, 2 December 1868
Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley c. 1920
Basic form of the Calderon coat of arms
The entrance to Fort Brockhurst (picture from Britain’s Past)
‘Le bain de Loti’ 1906, photographed probably by Alexander Vasilieff
Commemorative Poem, 2015 © John Pym, 2015
Nina Astley (Corbet), c.1917
Michel and Vera Fokine in “Scheherazade”, 1914 (The Music And Theatre Library of Sweden, creative commons)
K.N. Das Gupta and Margaret Mitchell in an Indian Dramatic Society production of The Maharani of Arakan, 1913?
Book sent to George Calderon in Russia by his mother, Christmas 1895.
‘Marae’ — pencil sketch by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
Toy theatre proscenium by George Calderon and C.E. Pym, Christmas 1914
Officers of the 9th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, April 1915.
Device designed by Kittie Calderon for covers of George Calderon Selected Works
Figure from Gauguin’s 1899 painting ‘Tahitian Women with Mango Blossoms’ (left); George Calderon’s pencil sketch ‘Manu’ (right)
First page of Calderon’s draft letter to the press, 5 October 1914
First Battle of Ypres, 29 October 1914
Kittie Calderon ‘keeping an eye on’ Pym and Lubbock children at Foxwold, c.1912
The Third Battle of Krithia
Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
Kittie Calderon and ‘Jones’ 1899
Sir Richard Vincent Sutton c. 1913
Christmas 1901 Cartoon by George Calderon
Jim Corbet c. 1914
George and Kittie Calderon 1905Related
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Another Calderon signs up
At Edmonton, Alberta, on this day in 1915, George’s eldest brother, the architect Alfred Merigon Calderon (q.v.), applied to join the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force — as their youngest brother, Frederick Elwyn, had on 23 September 1914. It is not … Continue reading
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7 May 1915: Farewell to friends
A telegram arrived at tea-time on the Friday [7 May 1915] saying he would be home that evening for one night’s leave only to return next day to Fort Brockhurst to await immediate orders to go on active service. His Mother, sister, … Continue reading
The note darkens
I did not notice it when I got to this point in writing the chapter in my biography, but the day-by-day ‘real time’ of the blog has brought it home to me: the note has definitely darkened by this date … Continue reading
21 April 1915
Fortis est veritas 9th Batt. Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Wednesday My dear Mother, Haven’t I been writing regularly? Well, you know there’s plenty to do here, and once I’ve got off a sheet to … 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
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
Birthday
Today, 2 December 1914, was George Calderon’s forty-sixth birthday. He most likely celebrated it over tea with Kittie and his mother; possibly a sister or brother also looked in. His mother, Clara Calderon (1836-1921), was the sister of painter George … Continue reading
1 November 1914
Since Kittie recalled receiving a telegram ‘one Sunday morning’ saying ‘Home wounded, shot through ankle’, it probably was on 1 November 1914 that George arrived at Sussex Lodge Hospital, 27 Sussex Place, Regent’s Park, which is now the home of … Continue reading
5 October 1914
Windmill Hill … Continue reading
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…then three come along at once
When I started my deeper research for this biography in 2010, one of the things I did was trawl the Web for manuscripts of George’s that were up for sale. I found only one item, which we bought for the … Continue reading →