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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Rudyard_KiplingRudyard Kipling - Wikipedia

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   3 days ago · Kipling's only son John was killed in action at the Battle of Loos in September 1915, at age 18. John initially wanted to join the Royal Navy, but having had his application turned down after a failed medical examination due to poor eyesight, he opted to apply for military service as an army officer.

   • Genre: Short story, novel, children's literature, poetry, travel literature, science fiction
   • Resting place: Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey

   • Notable awards: Nobel Prize in Literature, 1907

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   May 4, 2024 · In 1915, mortally wounded in Loos, France, eighteen-year-old John Kipling, son of writer Rudyard Kipling, remembers his boyhood and the events leading to what is to be his first and last World War I battle.

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   Apr 30, 2024 · Kipling’s son John was killed in action at the Battle of Loos in September 1915, at age 18. John initially wanted to join the Royal Navy, but having had his application turned down after a failed medical examination due to poor eyesight, he opted to apply for military service as an army officer.

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   Who was Rudyard Kipling?

   • Rudyard Kipling was born on 30 December 1865 in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, to Alice Kipling (born MacDonald) and John Lockwood Kipling. Alice (one of the four noted MacDonald sisters) was a vivacious woman, of whom Lord Dufferin would say, "Dullness and Mrs Kipling cannot exist in the same room."

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   What did Kipling say about shirking duty in the First World War?

   • Kipling had scorn for men who shirked duty in the First World War. In "The New Army in Training" (1915), Kipling concluded by saying: This much we can realise, even though we are so close to it, the old safe instinct saves us from triumph and exultation.

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   Why did Kipling blame British politicians for the Boer War?

   • Shocked by the heavy losses that the British Expeditionary Force had taken by the autumn of 1914, he blamed the entire pre-war generation of British politicians who, Kipling argued, had failed to learn the lessons of the Boer War.

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   Why did Kipling say the 'fathers' were not prepared for war?

   • Professor Tracy Bilsing contends that the line refers to Kipling's disgust that British leaders failed to learn the lessons of the Boer War, and were unprepared for the struggle with Germany in 1914, with the "lie" of the "fathers" being that the British Army was prepared for any war when it was not.

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6. www.funtrivia.com › trivia-quiz › LiteratureRudyard Kipling's "If" Quiz | Rudyard Kipling | 10 Questions

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   May 13, 2024 · Born in August of 1897, John Kipling died in 1915, in the Battle of Loos, which was fought on the Western Front in France during World War I. 2. This poem was inspired by the character of Scottish colonial politician Sir Leander Starr Jameson.

7. www.ramsdale.org › hoogeLiquid Fire at Hooge - July 1915 - Ramsdale

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   May 4, 2024 · Streams of liquid death spat out from the German lines on the morning of 30 July 1915 heralding an assault on the British positions around Hooge. At 3:15 am on Friday, 30 July 1915 the Germans (Württemberg Infanterie-Regiment 126, part of the 39th (Alsatian) Infanterie-Division) launched their attack.

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   Apr 26, 2024 · The Battle of Loos. 1916 The Battle of Albert* The Battle of Bazentin* in which the Division captured Longueval The Battle of Delville Wood* The Battle of Le Transloy* The battles marked * are phases of the Battles of the Somme 1916. 1917 The First Battle of the Scarpe** The Second Battle of the Scarpe**

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    May 14, 2024 · The following month he was missing, presumed dead; one of 20,000 British troops killed in the Battle of Loos. The last known sighting of him was by a fellow soldier, who was sure he had seen Kipling, ‘trying to fasten a field dressing round his mouth which was badly shattered by a piece of shell’.