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Early life. Born in 1897, Kipling was the youngest of three children of the author Rudyard Kipling and his American wife Caroline Starr Balestier. He was born at "The Elms" at Rottingdean in Sussex, which was the Kiplings' home between 1897 and 1902.
My Boy Jack" is a 1916 poem by Rudyard Kipling. Kipling wrote it for Jack Cornwell , the 16-year-old youngest recipient of the Victoria Cross , who stayed by his post on board the light cruiser HMS Chester at the Battle of Jutland until he died.
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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...
Mar 24, 2008 · The Search for Kipling's Only Son. Tonie Holt, Valmai Holt. Pen and Sword, Mar 24, 2008 - Biography & Autobiography - 256 pages. A full account of the tragic life of John “Jack” Kipling,...
Sep 25, 2015 · Photograph courtesy Hulton Archive/Getty. 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 ...
Not with this wind blowing, and this tide. "Has any one else had word of him?" Not this tide. Not with this wind blowing, and this tide. "Oh, dear, what comfort can I find?" None this tide, Not even with that wind blowing, and that tide. Then hold your head up all the more, And gave to that wind blowing and that tide.
The poem was first published with its title “My Boy Jack” in Twenty Poems from Rudyard Kipling (London: Methuen, May 1918; Toronto: Macmillan, 1918); and again with its title in The Years Between (London: Methuen, 1919; New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., April 1919). The date ‘1914-18’ was placed below the title in the three-volume Verse ...
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