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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 ...
Jan 18, 2016 · 18 January 2016. Getty Images. It is 80 years since the death of Rudyard Kipling. The author of The Jungle Book and If died without finding out what had happened to his son, who disappeared during ...
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. Tragic as this is, John’s fate is in itself unremarkable, for a similar story could be ...
Based on Graham and Joanna's findings for the corrected map reference at H.25.c and their corrected location of the remains being found at the edge of Chalk Pit Wood, they consider that, on the balance of probabilities, the remains of the Irish Guards lieutenant discovered by the September 1919 burial party must be Lieutenant John Kipling.
British Army Officer. Born the youngest child and only son of prominent author Rudyard Kipling and his American born wife Caroline Starr Balestier, he was known to his family as Jack. Plagued with severe nearsightedness, and was deemed medically unfit for military service during the First World War, he managed to...
Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( / ˈrʌdjərd / RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) [1] was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include the Jungle Book duology ( The Jungle Book, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, 1895), Kim ...
Nov 16, 2009 · On September 27, 1915, Second Lieutenant John Kipling of the British army, the only son of Nobel Prize-winning author Rudyard Kipling, is killed at the Battle of Loos, in the Artois region of ...
