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- John Kipling's body was not found. Rudyard Kipling spent four years searching for his lost son. He tracked down men from John's battalion and quizzed them. He wrote to the most senior military figures he knew, and asked the Red Cross to investigate.
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Jan 18, 2016 · John Kipling's body was not found. Rudyard Kipling spent four years searching for his lost son. He tracked down men from John's battalion and quizzed them.
Sep 25, 2015 · John Kipling went missing in action at the Battle of Loos, in northern France, one hundred years ago, on September 27, 1915. The eighteen-year-old lieutenant was likely the most widely searched...
Jan 20, 2016 · For nearly 80 years - his father died in 1936 - his fate remained a mystery until in 1992, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission changed the inscription on a gravestone of an unknown soldier to...
Last seen on the second day of the ill-fated attack, stumbling blindly through the mud, screaming in agony after an exploding shell had ripped his face apart, the failure to find John's...
Jan 19, 2016 · John Kipling died on Sept 27, 1915 in the Battle of Loos, weeks after arriving in France. His father, who had used his contacts to obtain an officer’s commission for him, spent much of his...
May 5, 2014 · The death of John Kipling on Sept. 27, 1915, was to wound his father in a way that no other event in his life ever had or ever would, and not only because his child was dead, for death is a...
Death. 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.
