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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.
Christmas 1901 Cartoon by George Calderon
Officers of the 9th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, April 1915.
The Third Battle of Krithia
‘Le bain de Loti’ 1906, photographed probably by Alexander Vasilieff
Kittie Calderon ‘keeping an eye on’ Pym and Lubbock children at Foxwold, c.1912
Book sent to George Calderon in Russia by his mother, Christmas 1895.
Nina Astley (Corbet), c.1917
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)
Device designed by Kittie Calderon for covers of George Calderon Selected Works
Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
George Calderon c.1901
George Calderon’s Attestation
Kittie Calderon and ‘Jones’ 1899
First Battle of Ypres, 29 October 1914
Figure from Gauguin’s 1899 painting ‘Tahitian Women with Mango Blossoms’ (left); George Calderon’s pencil sketch ‘Manu’ (right)
George and Kittie Calderon 1905
First page of Calderon’s draft letter to the press, 5 October 1914
Basic form of the Calderon coat of arms
Commemorative Poem, 2015 © John Pym, 2015
Jim Corbet c. 1914
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
Foxwold, by James W. Herald, c.1894
Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
Sir Richard Vincent Sutton c. 1913
‘Marae’ — pencil sketch by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906Related
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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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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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23 July 1915
British Red Cross and Order of St John Enquiry Department for Wounded and Missing 20, Arlington Street, S.W. July 23 Dear Mrs Calderon, Mr Lubbock telegraphs to us from Alexandria that 6424 Sergt. Smith, K.O.S.B. returning on the hospital ship … Continue reading
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22 July 1915
On or about this day, Kittie received Percy Lubbock’s note of 13 July from Alexandria, enclosing the statement he had taken in hospital that day from the ‘wrong’ Sergeant-Major Allen of the 1st KOSB. Although Percy had dated it the … Continue reading
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21 July 1915
On or about this day, Gertrude Bell, administrator of the Enquiry Department for Wounded and Missing at the London office of the Red Cross and Order of St John, received the witness statement that a volunteer in a hospital in … Continue reading
Dialogue at a dinner
SHE: Who is this man you are talking about? ME: He’s Edwardian. SHE: Is Edwardian? Surely you mean he was Edwardian? ME: Well no, he is Edwardian. SHE: No no, you can’t say that. He was Edwardian! ME: Er… Next entry: De-appled
13 July 1915: A witness is found
Suddenly, at Alexandria Percy Lubbock heard of the arrival in one of the city’s hospitals of a Sergeant-Major Allen from the 1st King’s Own Scottish Borderers (KOSB), the battalion George had been attached to at the Third Battle of Krithia … Continue reading
8 July 1915
British Red Cross St Mark’s Buildings Alexandria June 30. 1915 Kitty dear — A line in the middle of a long day — not to say what I think & feel — which can’t be now. I sent to the … Continue reading
A friend’s published tribute
As I explained in my post of 25 June, after George’s death was officially accepted in the spring of 1919 Kittie invited his friends to write their memoirs of him, which of course included tributes, but none of these was … Continue reading
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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 →