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First Battle of Ypres, 29 October 1914
Michel and Vera Fokine in “Scheherazade”, 1914 (The Music And Theatre Library of Sweden, creative commons)
Fragment of a letter from George’s father to his maternal grandmother, 2 December 1868
The entrance to Fort Brockhurst (picture from Britain’s Past)
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.
The Third Battle of Krithia
‘Le bain de Loti’ 1906, photographed probably by Alexander Vasilieff
Jim Corbet c. 1914
Foxwold, by James W. Herald, c.1894
Sir Richard Vincent Sutton c. 1913
Nina Astley (Corbet), c.1917
Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
Commemorative Poem, 2015 © John Pym, 2015
Officers of the 9th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, April 1915.
Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley c. 1920
‘Marae’ — pencil sketch by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
George Calderon c.1901
Basic form of the Calderon coat of arms
Kittie Calderon and ‘Jones’ 1899
Christmas 1901 Cartoon by George Calderon
George Calderon’s Attestation
K.N. Das Gupta and Margaret Mitchell in an Indian Dramatic Society production of The Maharani of Arakan, 1913?
George and Kittie Calderon 1905
Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
Book sent to George Calderon in Russia by his mother, Christmas 1895.
Figure from Gauguin’s 1899 painting ‘Tahitian Women with Mango Blossoms’ (left); George Calderon’s pencil sketch ‘Manu’ (right)
Device designed by Kittie Calderon for covers of George Calderon Selected Works
Toy theatre proscenium by George Calderon and C.E. Pym, Christmas 1914
First page of Calderon’s draft letter to the press, 5 October 1914
Kittie Calderon ‘keeping an eye on’ Pym and Lubbock children at Foxwold, c.1912Related
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Commemoration (to be concluded)
Mr Pym, who is the grandson of Violet and Evey Pym, of Foxwold, two of the Calderons’ closest friends, sent me this poem a fortnight before the anniversary of George Calderon’s death. He was not able to take part in … Continue reading
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Commemoration (to be continued 2)
Plan A for a commemoration of George’s death (see yesterday’s post) was really dictated by long accepted British forms of commemorative ritual. These have loosened up in recent years, of course, to a point where you have extended, all-singing-and-dancing customer-devised … Continue reading
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Kittie
George Calderon had now been dead four days, but no-one in Britain knew that. At Brasted Chart, near Sevenoaks in Kent, Kittie continued to support the Calderons’ friend Violet Pym, amusing Violet’s three children Jack (aged seven), Roly (aged five), … Continue reading
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Commemoration
In two days time the following ‘In Memoriam’ will appear in The Times: CALDERON George Leslie, Russianist, journalist, dramatist, anthropologist, adventurer, killed at Gallipoli 4 June 1915. ‘What he believed, he did’ (Laurence Binyon). Since George wrote more for The Times than any … Continue reading
22 May 1915
Today Kittie moved from Foxwold, the Pyms’ home in the Weald of Kent, to Emmetts, about a mile away. We know this from the fact that the Visitors Book at Foxwold was maintained meticulously. Emmetts was the home of Violet … Continue reading
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18 May 1915
May 18th. R.M.S. “ORSOVA” We’re nearing Malta. … Continue reading
A terrific find
Please read Katy George’s and my Comments at top right of the blog for the background to this letter, which Katy discovered recently amongst some papers of Mrs Raikes in a charity shop in Deal, Kent. New letters of Kittie … Continue reading
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15 January 1915: The move to barracks
I conclude, by a process of the usual ‘triangulation’, that the newly commissioned Lieutenant Calderon travelled down by train to report to the Portsmouth base of the 9th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry today, Friday 15 January 1915: 1. … Continue reading
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
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Commemoration (concluded)
Since this blog started in July last year, I have taken part in many conversations, both viva voce and online, about followers’ responses to George Calderon’s war experience, to the War as it has been unfolding, and to what I … Continue reading →