George and Kittie Calderon 1905
The entrance to Fort Brockhurst (picture from Britain’s Past)
Sir Richard Vincent Sutton c. 1913
George Calderon c.1901
Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
K.N. Das Gupta and Margaret Mitchell in an Indian Dramatic Society production of The Maharani of Arakan, 1913?
A happy memory of Trinity College: undergraduates breakfast together in Downy V. Green, p. 77.
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)
Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
Patrick Miles in his summer house, 11 December 2016
George Calderon, 1912
Michel and Vera Fokine in “Scheherazade”, 1914 (The Music And Theatre Library of Sweden, creative commons)
Captain of the 11
Monarch Butterfly Madeira
Christmas 1901 Cartoon by George Calderon
Frontis piece by Frank Calderon
Basic form of the Calderon coat of arms
Book sent to George Calderon in Russia by his mother, Christmas 1895.Recent Comments
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Tag Archives: British Expeditionary Force
17 September 1914
In the morning, George and Kittie left Ringwood and travelled to Southampton. Here they said goodbye for the time being and Kittie returned to Hampstead. After lunch George caught the train to Ludgershall and walked to the vast Windmill Hill … Continue reading
9 September 1914
On this day the B.E.F. began to cross the Marne. Momentously, an emissary from Moltke had arrived the day before and now persuaded both von Kluck and von Bülow that they must retreat northeastwards or be encircled by the Allies … 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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7 September 1914
Von Kluck now moved the left wing of his First Army almost forty miles northwards across the front of the B.E.F. to join his counter-attack on the French Sixth Army. On this day the B.E.F. marched about fifteen miles towards … Continue reading
6 September 1914
The initial strength of the B.E.F. was four infantry divisions and one cavalry. However, the cavalry had been particularly hard worked: they had been the only effective cover and communication between the B.E.F.’s two army corps during the whole … Continue reading
4 September 1914
This evening Joffre was brought a message from Sir John French that the B.E.F. was ‘prepared to assume the offensive’, i.e. at least five days earlier than he had told Joffre on 30 August. So what had put some fire … Continue reading
30 August 1914
On this day Sir John French, Commander-in-Chief of the B.E.F., telegraphed Joffre, his French counterpart, that he could not contemplate putting the B.E.F. back in the front line ‘for at least ten days’ and was intending to withdraw beyond the … Continue reading
23 August 1914
At about 7 a.m. today the Germans began to attack British positions around Mons. It was the British Expeditionary Force’s first action of the war. At first the German surges were mown down by rifle-fire. Gradually, however, von Kluck’s troops … Continue reading
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A correction?
It was perhaps a bit glib to say in the blog for 30 August that the B.E.F. ‘simply had to regroup’ etc. However, Arthur Moore in The Times was certainly wrong to describe the B.E.F. as a ‘broken army’, and Sir John … Continue reading →