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Grave. The grave of John Kipling was identified by Military Historian, Norm Christie, then Records Officer of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in 1992, and Kipling was officially listed as buried in St Mary's ADS Cemetery in Haisnes.
17 Aug 1897. Rottingdean, Brighton and Hove Unitary Authority, East Sussex, England. Death. 27 Sep 1915 (aged 18) Loos-en-Gohelle, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. Burial. Saint Mary's Advanced Dressing Station Cemetery. Haisnes, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France Add to Map. Plot. VII. D. 2.
The grave of Lt. John Kipling at St. Mary's ADS Cemetery near Loos. On 23 September 1919 the remains of a casualty were discovered by a British Army burial party searching the old Loos battlefield. The casualty was recorded as an “Unidentified British Soldier, Officer Lieut. Irish Guards”.
The grave of John Kipling (and the Battle of Loos) - YouTube. Ronan McGreevy. 698 subscribers. Subscribed. 37. 4.7K views 8 years ago. This is a little video I did when I visited the grave...
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Second Lieutenant John Kipling. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Irish Guards. Death: 27 September 1915 wounded and missing at Loos beyond the Chalk Pit Wood, Western Front. Only son of Rudyard (the writer) and Carrie Kipling, of Batemans, Burwash, Sussex.
The Loos Memorial commemorates 20,605 British officers and men who were killed from 25 September 1915 to the end of the war in November 1918 in the battle sector between the river Lys in French Flanders and the village of Grenay, near Lens, in Artois. The Loos Memorial to the Missing forms the rear and the two sides of Dud Corner Cemetery.
Sep 29, 2015 · Decades later, in 1992, the body of an unidentified lieutenant previously buried in a grave for an unknown soldier was reported to be that of John Kipling, and his gravestone was amended...
