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Kipling was reported injured and missing in action in September 1915 during the Battle of Loos. There remains no definite evidence relating to the cause of his death, but credible reporting indicates he was last seen attacking a German position, possibly with a head injury. With fighting continuing, his body was not identified.
Nov 16, 2009 · Learn about the death of John Kipling, the only son of Rudyard Kipling, on September 27, 1915, during World War I. Find out how his father mourned him and wrote a poem for the fallen soldiers.
Jan 18, 2016 · The author of The Jungle Book and If died without finding out what had happened to his son, who disappeared during World War One. Now researchers think they have definitively solved the mystery ...
Jan 20, 2016 · THE mystery surrounding Rudyard Kipling's son has finally been solved - more than 100 years after his death. Soldier John Kipling went missing during the Battle of Loos in the First World...
by Dorothea Flothow (University of Salzburg) On September 27th, 1915, John Kipling, the author’s eighteen-year-old son, who had joined the army almost immediately after the outbreak of the First World War, fought his first battle. He was severely wounded; it seems certain that he died the same day.
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Missing Irish Guards officers: Three Irish Guards officers died on 27 September 1915. After the war all three of their burial locations were lost. Rank: The public announcement of John Kipling’s promotion to lieutenant was not published in The London Gazette until after his death.
John Kipling, son of Rudyard Kipling, was killed at the Battle of Loos in 1915. Born on the 17 August 1897, John was the only son of the famous British writer Rudyard Kipling and his wife Caroline “Carrie” Starr Balestier. John was born at the family’s residence in Rottingdean before they relocated to Batemans House, also in East Sussex ...
