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 been as eviscerating as living with the First Battle of Ypres (see post of 31 October 2014), I will admit to being clapped-out.
When I began this blog, I said that I dreaded reaching the end of George’s life and I had lived for years with variants of the last sentence. Well, the experience hasn’t been what I was expecting, and the last sentence (flat though it may seem) is, I think, the only right one. I will say more about the ‘experience’ when I have got my head round it!
Meanwhile, I recommend Peter Hart’s Gallipoli (Profile Books, 2013). He has a firm grip on the big picture (the official history, 1929/32, is an impressive source for everyone where that is concerned), but his unique strength is the range of individual soldiers’ accounts that he copiously quotes. It is fascinating to compare Hart’s book with the classic by Alan Moorehead, Gallipoli (Hamish Hamilton, 1956).
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K.N. Das Gupta and Margaret Mitchell in an Indian Dramatic Society production of The Maharani of Arakan, 1913?
Basic form of the Calderon coat of arms
Frontis piece by Frank Calderon
A happy memory of Trinity College: undergraduates breakfast together in Downy V. Green, p. 77.
Christmas 1901 Cartoon by George Calderon
Book sent to George Calderon in Russia by his mother, Christmas 1895.
George and Kittie Calderon 1905
The entrance to Fort Brockhurst (picture from Britain’s Past)
Figure from Gauguin’s 1899 painting ‘Tahitian Women with Mango Blossoms’ (left); George Calderon’s pencil sketch ‘Manu’ (right)
Sir Richard Vincent Sutton c. 1913
George Calderon, 1912
Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley c. 1920
Captain of the 11
Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
Monarch Butterfly Madeira
Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
Michel and Vera Fokine in “Scheherazade”, 1914 (The Music And Theatre Library of Sweden, creative commons)
Patrick Miles in his summer house, 11 December 2016
George Calderon c.1901
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 been as eviscerating as living with the First Battle of Ypres (see post of 31 October 2014), I will admit to being clapped-out.
When I began this blog, I said that I dreaded reaching the end of George’s life and I had lived for years with variants of the last sentence. Well, the experience hasn’t been what I was expecting, and the last sentence (flat though it may seem) is, I think, the only right one. I will say more about the ‘experience’ when I have got my head round it!
Meanwhile, I recommend Peter Hart’s Gallipoli (Profile Books, 2013). He has a firm grip on the big picture (the official history, 1929/32, is an impressive source for everyone where that is concerned), but his unique strength is the range of individual soldiers’ accounts that he copiously quotes. It is fascinating to compare Hart’s book with the classic by Alan Moorehead, Gallipoli (Hamish Hamilton, 1956).
Next entry: The Scott syndrome
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