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Kittie Calderon ‘keeping an eye on’ Pym and Lubbock children at Foxwold, c.1912
Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
George and Kittie Calderon 1905
Sir Richard Vincent Sutton c. 1913
‘Marae’ — pencil sketch by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
Christmas 1901 Cartoon by George Calderon
Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley c. 1920
Device designed by Kittie Calderon for covers of George Calderon Selected Works
Kittie Calderon and ‘Jones’ 1899
K.N. Das Gupta and Margaret Mitchell in an Indian Dramatic Society production of The Maharani of Arakan, 1913?
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.
First page of Calderon’s draft letter to the press, 5 October 1914
Jim Corbet c. 1914
Nina Astley (Corbet), c.1917
Michel and Vera Fokine in “Scheherazade”, 1914 (The Music And Theatre Library of Sweden, creative commons)
The Third Battle of Krithia
The entrance to Fort Brockhurst (picture from Britain’s Past)
Officers of the 9th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, April 1915.
Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
‘Le bain de Loti’ 1906, photographed probably by Alexander Vasilieff
George Calderon’s Attestation
Basic form of the Calderon coat of arms
Commemorative Poem, 2015 © John Pym, 2015
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)
Toy theatre proscenium by George Calderon and C.E. Pym, Christmas 1914
Fragment of a letter from George’s father to his maternal grandmother, 2 December 1868
Foxwold, by James W. Herald, c.1894
Book sent to George Calderon in Russia by his mother, Christmas 1895.
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The War
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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Flashback — and tourbillions in Time (again)
The Imperial War Museum invited me to contribute a post to their Research Blog, and I promptly accepted. I am not, of course, a military historian, and when I started researching the last ten months of George’s life I was … 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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Tagged commemoration, comments, Dardanelles, Evey Pym, Foxwold, Francois Rabelais, Gallipoli, George Calderon, John Pym, Kittie Calderon, Nina Astley, Nina Corbet, Peter Hart, The Great War, Third Battle of Krithia, Violet Pym, World War I
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4/5 June 1915
The first wave of the KOSB attack at noon on 4 June was, as the Official History put it, ‘practically blotted out’. The carnage was so terrible that on his own initiative their commander delayed the second wave. At 12.35, however, … Continue reading
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‘Hunter-Bunter’s’ plan
As an essentially literary chap, I do not propose to embroil myself in controversy about the Commander of the 29th Division at Helles, Sir Aylmer Gould Hunter-Weston (1864-1940), popularly known as ‘Hunter-Bunter’. He has been described as ‘one of the … Continue reading
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26 April 1915
By one o’clock this morning all the remaining first-wave troops had been safely landed at V Beach, Helles. They began to dig themselves in and cut their way through the heavy barbed wire up the beach. The navy battered the … Continue reading
25 April 1915: The bloodbath begins
At 4.30 this morning the first ANZAC troops began landing at Z Beach on the Gallipoli Peninsula. They were not strongly opposed, as von Sanders’s strategy was to keep a light screen around the coast until it was clear where … Continue reading
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A biographer sighs
I have now written the last chapter of Calderon’s life (not the last chapter of the book), and revised it in manuscript. I have been living with the whole Gallipoli campaign for the past three months. Although this has not … 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 →