George and Kittie Calderon 1905
Patrick Miles in his summer house, 11 December 2016
Frontis piece by Frank Calderon
Sir Richard Vincent Sutton c. 1913
Christmas 1901 Cartoon by George Calderon
Monarch Butterfly Madeira
Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley c. 1920
George Calderon, 1912
A happy memory of Trinity College: undergraduates breakfast together in Downy V. Green, p. 77.
Captain of the 11
George Calderon c.1901
Book sent to George Calderon in Russia by his mother, Christmas 1895.
Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
Figure from Gauguin’s 1899 painting ‘Tahitian Women with Mango Blossoms’ (left); George Calderon’s pencil sketch ‘Manu’ (right)
Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
The entrance to Fort Brockhurst (picture from Britain’s Past)
Michel and Vera Fokine in “Scheherazade”, 1914 (The Music And Theatre Library of Sweden, creative commons)
Basic form of the Calderon coat of arms
K.N. Das Gupta and Margaret Mitchell in an Indian Dramatic Society production of The Maharani of Arakan, 1913?
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Tag Archives: World War I
Blood is spilt
Presumably B Squadron of the 7th Cavalry Brigade of the Blues also bivouacked last night near Lendelede. Reveille this morning, Tuesday 13 October 1914, was at four, and two hours later the squadron was moving south again, towards Gullegem, where … Continue reading
12 October 1914
From the Château […] we went on to what they were pleased to call a ‘billet’ in the country, but it was only a bivouack, except for myself, who, having a cold, slept in the kitchen on straw. The others … Continue reading
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Pause and enigma
The Calderon quotations that feature in my preceding two posts come from a letter George wrote to Kittie today, 11 October 1914, which was a Sunday. This was now the pattern: every few days he would write her a long … Continue reading
10 October 1914
Up at 3.30 to go out on a Patrol with [Sergeant] Mackintosh, to see that the country was clear of Germans for the Regiment to move. Out (with a little cocoa inside) between misty grey fields; very keen eyed at … Continue reading
9 October 1914
The 3rd Cavalry Division had arrived in Belgium with a crack infantry force, the 7th Division. The latter’s orders were to go to Antwerp, sixty miles away, to assist in its defence. Little did they know that on the night … Continue reading
8 October 1914
The transport ship ‘Huanchaco’ arrived at Zeebrugge at 5.30 this morning. Mid-morning George wrote to Kittie that the voyage had been ‘much like other sea voyages; meals, tobacco, chat and a little music’, But down below something between a menagerie … Continue reading
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Darkness
By yesterday night the Blues had embarked at Southampton. But the transport ships did not move, as there was suspected U-boat activity in the English Channel. They may not have moved next day either, or they may have steamed eastwards … Continue reading
The ‘off’
‘So as not to crowd’ Ludgershall station, as Calderon wrote his mother yesterday, at six o’clock that evening the Blues set off on horseback from Windmill Hill Camp across Salisbury Plain to another station (presumably Amesbury). The Life Guards had … Continue reading
5 October 1914
Windmill Hill … Continue reading
4 October 1914
It was Sunday. Kittie probably went to church. She fervently believed in the power of prayer, and one can imagine what she prayed for. After lunch, they set out for Waterloo station. As George was coming out of 42 Well … Continue reading
3 October 1914
This morning, which was a Saturday, Kittie suddenly received a telegram from George to say that, in her words, ‘after all a lot of them were getting 24 hours leave and he would be home in a few hours’. When … Continue reading
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1 October 1914
The first attempt at implementing the Schlieffen Plan for defeating France had failed and Moltke was replaced as chief of the German general staff by Falkenhayn. The Germans now began a second attempt. Their intention was to invade the rest … Continue reading
The military situation
In his letter to Kittie yesterday, Calderon wrote: ‘We hear that cavalrymen on the Oise have put their horses by, and are standing in the trenches with the rest.’ This was true and highly revealing. After 9 September the German … Continue reading
‘Connected with the Hamiltons’
A hundred years ago today George V, Queen Mary, the Prime Minister, and their entourages, visited Windmill Hill Camp. The Third Cavalry Division had now been officially formed and was being reviewed by the monarch. George Calderon described it as … Continue reading
26 September 1914
Today Kittie left Hampstead to stay with the Pyms at Foxwold, near Sevenoaks in Kent. It was a sign of her desperation, or of her need for comfort, or at least of her desire to be with people she loved … Continue reading
29 September 1914
It is clear from something Calderon wrote to his wife at the end of October that he did suffer from bouts of depression whilst he was an interpreter with the Blues. On this day, Tuesday 29 September, he wrote … Continue reading →