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North End House, Rottingdean, John Kipling's birthplace John Kipling's grave. John Kipling (17 August 1897 – 27 September 1915) was the only son of British author Rudyard Kipling. In the First World War, his father used his influence to get him a commission in the British Army despite being decisively rejected for poor eyesight. His death at ...
In 1992 the Commonwealth War Graves Commission claimed to have identified John Kipling's body. However, Tonie and Valmai Holt (authors of the successful Major and Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guides) doubted the "identification" and researched John's life and death in detail, writing the first biography of John Kipling, entitled My Boy Jack? [8]
"A Death-Bed" is a poem by English poet and writer Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). It was first published in April 1919, in the collection The Years Between. Later publications identified the year of writing as 1918. [1] [2] Kipling's only son, John, had been reported missing in action in 1915, during the Battle of Loos, leaving
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. [13] Alice (one of the four noted MacDonald sisters ) [ 14 ] was a vivacious woman, [ 15 ] of whom Lord Dufferin would say, "Dullness and Mrs Kipling cannot exist in the same room."
My Boy Jack is the name of a 1997 play written by English actor David Haig.It examines how grief affected Rudyard Kipling and his family following the death of his son, John (known as Jack [citation needed]; although see the main Wikipedia entry on Rudyard Kipling), at the Battle of Loos in 1915.
It tells the story of Rudyard Kipling and his grief for his son, John, who died in the First World War. The title comes from Kipling's poem of the same name. [5] The theatre piece played at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, in 2004. It then toured Oxford, Richmond, Brighton, Norwich, Cardiff and Cambridge, with the newly formed Haig Lang ...
John Kipling's death inspired his father Rudyard to become involved with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and write a wartime history of the Irish Guards. Killed in action 101 years 1916 Willie Wiseman: 20 France Wiseman, a member of the Gordon Highlanders, was wounded during service on the Western Front, remaining missing for a week.
Elsie Bambridge (née Kipling; 2 February 1896 – 24 May 1976) was the second daughter of British writer Rudyard Kipling. She was the only one of the Kiplings' three children to survive beyond early adulthood. [1] On 22 October 1924, Elsie Kipling married George Bambridge and in 1938 they bought Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire's largest stately ...