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Sep 27, 2018 · Remembering the Fallen: on this day in 1915, Second Lieutenant John Kipling, 2nd Battalion, the Irish Guards, was killed in action at the Battle of Loos. The youngest child of the author Rudyard Kipling, he had wanted to join the Royal Navy, but he failed the medical examination due to poor eyesight. Two attempts to join the army also failed ...
This is a little video I did when I visited the grave of John Kipling as part of my book Wherever the Firing Line Extends. I have written about Rudyard Kipli...
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Jan 23, 2024 · John Kipling was 18 years old, the son of author Rudyard Kipling, when he died on September 27, 1915 during the Battle of Loos in France. Friends and family said he had a small stature, sunny disposition, and was a bit of a car buff.
John "Jack" Kipling (17 August 1897 - 27 September 1915) was the only son of the British author Rudyard Kipling. At only 18 years old, he was killed at the Battle of Loos while serving with the British Army during the First World War. He is a central character in the play My Boy Jack and its film adaptation. Kipling was born at the home of his parents, The Elms, Rottingdean, Sussex in 1897 ...
John Lockwood Kipling, who was born in Kirbymoorside, near Pickering in Yorkshire, on 6 July 1837, is best known in England as the father of the writer Rudyard Kipling. But he was tremendously gifted in his own right. Until recently, this has been more fully recognised in India and Pakistan, where he has left much of his own remarkable legacy ...
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 War in ...
May 15, 2014 · John Kipling, son of poet Rudyard Kipling, disappeared during the First World War at the age of eighteen. His disappearance left the poet a shell of his former self, and he wrote about his son multiple times after the young man went missing in action. While WWI-era poetry lost its optimism early on, as seen by the poetry of Robert Graves, poor ...
