Patrick Miles in his summer house, 11 December 2016
Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley c. 1920
A happy memory of Trinity College: undergraduates breakfast together in Downy V. Green, p. 77.
Christmas 1901 Cartoon by George Calderon
George Calderon c.1901
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)
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.
The entrance to Fort Brockhurst (picture from Britain’s Past)
Sir Richard Vincent Sutton c. 1913
George Calderon, 1912
Captain of the 11
Monarch Butterfly Madeira
Basic form of the Calderon coat of arms
Frontis piece by Frank Calderon
George and Kittie Calderon 1905
Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.Recent Comments
- Jim D G Miles on From the diary of a writer-publisher: 28 Excellent entry, Dad. I like the escape room picture, of course, but the story about the Russian and the hole-in-the-wall is exceptional! (28/03/2024 at 9:58 PM)
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Tag Archives: Reginald Astley
Life at Hoe Benham
We may assume, then, that two days ago Kittie arrived at The Cottage at the Crossways, Hoe Benham, to stay for an indefinite period with the closest woman friend in her life, Nina Astley (Corbet). She would have travelled to … Continue reading
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Tagged Acton Reynald, Benham Valence, Boxford, Constance Sutton, Dardanelles, Gallipoli, George Calderon, Hoe Benham, Jim Corbet, Kittie Calderon, Lesbia Corbet, Nina Astley, Percy Lubbock, Reginald Astley, Sir Richard Sutton, Sir Roland James Corbet, The Crossways, The Great War, World War I
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1 February 1915
Tel.: Stockcross Benham Valence, … Continue reading
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Tagged Benham Valence, Constance Astley, Dick Sutton, Eliza Stewart, Fort Brockurst, George Calderon, Jim Corbet, Kittie Calderon, Lesbia Corbet, Nina Astley, Reginald Astley, Sir Richard Sutton, Sir Roland James Corbet, The Great War, Torquay, 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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22 September 1914
On this day Kittie had lunch with Nina and Reginald Astley at the Royal Automobile Club and visited Nina’s son Sir Roland Corbet (Jim) in hospital at Grosvenor Gardens. He had a lot of visitors, so, as Kittie wrote George … Continue reading
A friend is wounded
On 8 September 1914 the B.E.F. moved towards the Marne and began to be attacked by von Kluck’s rearguard. In one such engagement a dear friend of the Calderons was hit by shrapnel. This was the 22-year-old Sir Roland James … Continue reading
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Tagged Acton Reynald, Alexander von Kluck, Battle of the Marne, British Expeditionary Force, Coldstream Guards, George Calderon, Jim Corbet, Kittie Calderon, La Trétoire, Lady Caroline Corbet, Nina Astley, Nina Corbet, Reginald Astley, Sir Roland James Corbet, Sir Walter Corbet, The Great War, World War I
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5 August 1914
Note that George Calderon’s ‘Attestation’ simply meant that he had joined the ‘Territorial Force’ and this committed him to ‘Four Years Service in the United Kingdom’. In his excellent The British Soldier of the First World War (Shire Books, 2010) Peter Doyle … Continue reading
‘He was away, far away…’
The S.S. Aguila, a cruise ship of the Yeoward Line, dropped anchor off Funchal, the capital of Madeira, on 31 March 1913, probably around lunchtime. There were twenty-nine passengers aboard, including George Calderon. Within a couple of hours he was sitting … Continue reading →