A happy memory of Trinity College: undergraduates breakfast together in Downy V. Green, p. 77.
Christmas 1901 Cartoon by George Calderon
Patrick Miles in his summer house, 11 December 2016
George Calderon c.1901
Frontis piece by Frank Calderon
Monarch Butterfly Madeira
Basic form of the Calderon coat of arms
Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
Sir Richard Vincent Sutton c. 1913
George Calderon, 1912
Figure from Gauguin’s 1899 painting ‘Tahitian Women with Mango Blossoms’ (left); George Calderon’s pencil sketch ‘Manu’ (right)
Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
Captain of the 11
The entrance to Fort Brockhurst (picture from Britain’s Past)
K.N. Das Gupta and Margaret Mitchell in an Indian Dramatic Society production of The Maharani of Arakan, 1913?
George and Kittie Calderon 1905
Michel and Vera Fokine in “Scheherazade”, 1914 (The Music And Theatre Library of Sweden, creative commons)
Book sent to George Calderon in Russia by his mother, Christmas 1895.
Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley c. 1920Recent Comments
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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
6/7 June 1915
By the end of 4 June, seven out of the twelve available reserve battalions of VIII Corps had been sent in to reinforce the failure of the attacks on the left and right flanks — although it has been suggested … Continue reading
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Tagged 1/5th King's Own Scottish Borderers, 52nd (Lowland) Division, Captain Grogan, comments, Dardanelles, Final days, Fir Tree Wood, Fir Tree Wood Cemetery, Gallipoli, General Kitchener, George Calderon, identity tag, King's Own Scottish Borderers, Kittie Calderon, The Great War, Twelve Tree Copse, Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery, 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
Posted in Edwardian literature, Heroism and Adventure, Personal commentary
Tagged 127th Manchester Brigade, comments, Dardanelles, Final days, Gallipoli, George Calderon, King's Own Scottish Borderers, Krithia, Lieutenant-General Aylmer Hunter-Weston, Manchester Territorial Brigade, Peter Hart, Royal Fusiliers, Royal Naval Division, The Great War, Third Battle of Krithia, Worcestershire Regiment, World War I
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4 June 1915: The Third Battle of Krithia
At nine o’clock last night the 1st Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers paraded near W Beach, received a benediction from their padre, and were addressed by their commanding officer. They had been taken from the 87th Brigade and attached to … Continue reading
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Tagged biographies, biography, Captain Paterson, Dardanelles, death of George Calderon, Essex Regiment, Final days, Gallipoli, George Calderon, Gully Ravine, Hampshire Regiment, King's Own Scottish Borderers, Krithia, Percy Lubbock, Royal Fusiliers, Royal Scots, The Great War, Third Battle of Krithia, trench diagram, Twelve Tree Copse, W Beach, Worcestershire Regiment, World War I
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‘We’re the Jims’
Hunter-Weston’s VIII Corps (in effect, all the British forces on the Helles front) issued its orders today, Thursday 3 June 1915. They were meticulous and ‘for the first time accompanied by a trench diagram, showing the various objectives to be … Continue reading
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Tagged 29th Indian Brigade, Achi Baba, Battle of the Brickstacks, Colonel Hawkins, comments, Dardanelles, Elizabeth Ellis, Gallipoli, George Calderon, Gully Ravine, Jim Corbet, King's Own Scottish Borderers, Kittie Calderon, Krithia, Shady, Sir Roland James Corbet, The Great War, Third Battle of Krithia, Tommy, World War I
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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
1 June 1915
1st K.O.S.B 87th Bg., 29th Div., M.E.F. June 1st Dearest Mrs P., Nothing in my letters need make you anxious, for you’d know if I was a casualty thro’ the W.O., before any letter had time to alarm you, same … Continue reading
31 May 1915
Today the fate of George Calderon and several thousand other British soldiers at Gallipoli was sealed. Sir Ian Hamilton, Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, decided to fight a general action on the Helles front without waiting for the extra … Continue reading
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Tagged comments, Dardanelles, Gallipoli, General Henri Gouraud, General Kitchener, George Calderon, Ian Hamilton, Lieutenant-General Aylmer Hunter-Weston, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, The Great War, Third Battle of Krithia, World War I
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30 May 1915
1st bn KOSB 87th Brigade 29th Division M.E.F. May 30th Dearest Mrs P, I’m hard up for paper. Please send some. We’re still on the same spot, in broiling sun, dry and beautiful; sea to either side. […] Daily programme … Continue reading
‘Nothing happened’
It is a very curious thing, but in none of the sources that I have used for understanding the full military context of George’s life on Gallipoli does the date 29 May feature. Nor did he write a letter to … Continue reading
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Tagged 'real time', biography, Dardanelles, Gallipoli, General Kitchener, George Calderon, Ian Hamilton, The Great War, World War I
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28 May 1915
It may have seemed surprising, or even shocking, that Calderon did not end his letter to Kittie yesterday with any endearments to her, only a ‘warm embrace’ for their dog! But its beginning — ‘Oh dearest Mrs P.’ — is … Continue reading
‘New Western Polovtsians’
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Tagged Achi Baba, comments, Dardanelles, Gallipoli, George Calderon, H.M.S. 'Majestic', Helles, King's Own Scottish Borderers, Kittie Calderon, Michel Fokine, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, Polovtsians, The Great War, Tommy, U-21, World War I
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26 May 1915
This afternoon the ferry steamer from Mudros with George Calderon on board arrived at Helles and its draft of soldiers from Britain landed ‘under the crumbled ruins of a white castle’ as he put it, i.e. the old fort at … Continue reading
25 May 1915
In a blue harbour surrounded by green rock-broken hills in a place I may not name. 9 a.m. … Continue reading
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Tagged 'Stamboul', Dardanelles, Dorking, E-11, Frank Hornby, Gallipoli, George Calderon, H.M.S. 'Triumph', Kittie Calderon, Kyles of Bute, Lemnos, Mudros, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, R.M.S. 'Orsova', submarines, The Great War, U-21, World War I
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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
Posted in Edwardian character, Personal commentary
Tagged ANZAC, armistices, Aubrey Herbert, comments, Dardanelles, Gallipoli, General Aylmer Hunter-Weston, General Douglas Haig, General Henri Gouraud, George Calderon, Ian Hamilton, Peter Hart, Second Battle of Krithia, The Great War, Third Battle of Krithia, World War I
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George Calderon: a tribute
As I have written before, the question everyone asks me is: ‘Who is George Calderon?’ Perhaps unconsciously, some people seem to intonate this as a rhetorical question implying: ‘Why are you spending years of your life writing about a person … Continue reading →