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First page of Calderon’s draft letter to the press, 5 October 1914
Commemorative Poem, 2015 © John Pym, 2015
Michel and Vera Fokine in “Scheherazade”, 1914 (The Music And Theatre Library of Sweden, creative commons)
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.
Fragment of a letter from George’s father to his maternal grandmother, 2 December 1868
Kittie Calderon and ‘Jones’ 1899
‘Le bain de Loti’ 1906, photographed probably by Alexander Vasilieff
The Third Battle of Krithia
Kittie Calderon ‘keeping an eye on’ Pym and Lubbock children at Foxwold, c.1912
Officers of the 9th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, April 1915.
First Battle of Ypres, 29 October 1914
Nina Astley (Corbet), c.1917
George Calderon c.1901
Toy theatre proscenium by George Calderon and C.E. Pym, Christmas 1914
Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley c. 1920
George Calderon’s Attestation
Foxwold, by James W. Herald, c.1894
Basic form of the Calderon coat of arms
Christmas 1901 Cartoon by George Calderon
‘Marae’ — pencil sketch by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
Jim Corbet c. 1914
Sir Richard Vincent Sutton c. 1913
K.N. Das Gupta and Margaret Mitchell in an Indian Dramatic Society production of The Maharani of Arakan, 1913?
Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
George and Kittie Calderon 1905
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)
Book sent to George Calderon in Russia by his mother, Christmas 1895.
The entrance to Fort Brockhurst (picture from Britain’s Past)Related
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Watch this Space 17 February 2016
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30 July 1915: ‘Ends’
It does not seem exactly a year since the small boys Jack and Roly Pym ran across from their holiday home at Seaview on the Isle of Wight to greet George Calderon, a kind of uncle to them, who had … Continue reading
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29 July 1915
29th July, 1915. The Military Secretary presents his compliments to Mrs Calderon, and begs to thank her for her letter of July 26th, and to inform her that a form of enquiry on behalf of her husband will be sent … Continue reading
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28 July 1915
Brit. Red Cross St Mark’s Buildings Alexandria July 20.1915 Kitty dear One of our workers found another Sgt Major Allan, B Company, 1st K.O.S.B. in hospital here. The report that this man gave was sent to London last week, and you … Continue reading
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Im Westen nichts Neues is the title of Erich Maria Remarque’s famous novel, usually rendered in English as All Quiet on the Western Front. Its literal translation, however, is In the West Nothing New. The deadly sniping, sapping, night raids, shelling … Continue reading
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26 July 1915
Today, Monday 26 July 1915, Kittie wrote the above letter to Military Secretary 3 (Casualties) at the War Office. I have not transcribed it, as she has written it as clearly as possible. Even so, she has omitted an apostrophe … Continue reading
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REVIEW. Lorna C. Beckett, The Second I Saw You: The True Love Story of Rupert Brooke and Phyllis Gardner (British Library, 2015), 208 pp.
The chance sight of an email that I sent my military research assistant on 22 July 2014 recalls me with a start to the fact that I began researching the last year of George Calderon’s life exactly a year ago! … Continue reading
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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 →