Book sent to George Calderon in Russia by his mother, Christmas 1895.
Christmas 1901 Cartoon by George Calderon
George and Kittie Calderon 1905
Patrick Miles in his summer house, 11 December 2016
A happy memory of Trinity College: undergraduates breakfast together in Downy V. Green, p. 77.
Basic form of the Calderon coat of arms
Sir Richard Vincent Sutton c. 1913
George Calderon, 1912
Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
Michel and Vera Fokine in “Scheherazade”, 1914 (The Music And Theatre Library of Sweden, creative commons)
George Calderon c.1901
K.N. Das Gupta and Margaret Mitchell in an Indian Dramatic Society production of The Maharani of Arakan, 1913?
Frontis piece by Frank Calderon
Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley c. 1920
Figure from Gauguin’s 1899 painting ‘Tahitian Women with Mango Blossoms’ (left); George Calderon’s pencil sketch ‘Manu’ (right)
The entrance to Fort Brockhurst (picture from Britain’s Past)
Monarch Butterfly Madeira
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Tag Archives: Manolo Ordoño de Rosales
Life with the 9th Ox and Bucks
It is not quite clear from the wording of Kittie’s memoirs whether George had been coming home every weekend from Friday to Monday before starting a ‘machine gunnery course on Hayling Island’, or whether he was able to take such long weekends … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Maxwell Labouchere, Fort Brockhurst, George Calderon, Hayling Island, Henry Newbolt, Kittie Calderon, Major Benson, Manolo Ordoño de Rosales, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, Peel family, The Great War, William Rothenstein, World War I
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The sexiest couple in Europe
Many passenger lists from a hundred years ago are available online, but it seems that those for ‘normal’ voyages within Europe were not preserved except in special circumstances. Thus I haven’t been able to establish exactly when the Fokine family … Continue reading
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Tagged 'Scheherazade', Anatolii Lunacharskii, Bergen, comments, Diaghilev, George Calderon, Hermann Goering, Juliet Nicolson, Kittie Calderon, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Manolo Ordoño de Rosales, Michel Fokine, Moscow Arts, Norway, The Great War, Vaslav Nijinsky, Vera Fokine, Vitalii Fokine, World War I
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Visitors and ‘victory’
The fact that Calderon wrote to Daniel and Henriette Sturge Moore on Sunday 22 November 1914, but not, as far as we know, to their parents, implies that their parents actually visited George in hospital. This is in any case … Continue reading
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Tagged Belgium, Daniel Sturge Moore, Dr Albert Tebb, George Calderon, Henriette Sturge Moore, Inns of Court Regiment, Kittie Calderon, Louise Rosales, Manolo Ordoño de Rosales, Max Hastings, Nina Astley, Reginald Astley, Royal Horse Guards, Sir Roland James Corbet, The Blues, The Great War, Thomas Sturge Moore, William Caine, World War I, Ypres
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‘Tributes’
A Russianist who has read Percy Lubbock’s George Calderon: A Sketch from Memory (1921) asks me why I have not posted more tributes to George than my own. The reason is simply that tributes were not published until his death became … Continue reading →