Basic form of the Calderon coat of arms
Frontis piece by Frank Calderon
Michel and Vera Fokine in “Scheherazade”, 1914 (The Music And Theatre Library of Sweden, creative commons)
Sir Richard Vincent Sutton c. 1913
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?
Figure from Gauguin’s 1899 painting ‘Tahitian Women with Mango Blossoms’ (left); George Calderon’s pencil sketch ‘Manu’ (right)
Monarch Butterfly Madeira
Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
George and Kittie Calderon 1905
Christmas 1901 Cartoon by George Calderon
Book sent to George Calderon in Russia by his mother, Christmas 1895.
A happy memory of Trinity College: undergraduates breakfast together in Downy V. Green, p. 77.
George Calderon, 1912
Patrick Miles in his summer house, 11 December 2016
George Calderon c.1901
Captain of the 11
Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley c. 1920Recent Comments
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26 July 1915
Letter from Kittie to the War Office 26 July 1915
Today, Monday 26 July 1915, Kittie wrote the above letter to Military Secretary 3 (Casualties) at the War Office. I have not transcribed it, as she has written it as clearly as possible. Even so, she has omitted an apostrophe and all full stops, which she did not usually do. Various features in it suggest it was written under great strain.
Whether she has seen Sergeant-Major Allan’s report or not, met Sergeant Smith or not, she has evidently decided to adopt an official position of believing George missing, ‘probably prisoner of war in Turkey’…
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