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My Boy Jack" is a 1916 poem by Rudyard Kipling. [1] 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.
My Boy Jack is a 1997 play by English actor David Haig. 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 1915 poem, My Boy Jack .
[citation needed] He also wrote as an epitaph “If any question why we died, / Tell them, because our fathers lied.” [10] However, contrary to popular belief, [citation needed] the poem My Boy Jack does not allude to the wartime loss of his son, rather it was probably written about the death of Jack Cornwell, the youngest sailor killed at ...
My Boy Jack is a 2007 British biographical television film based on David Haig's 1997 play of the same name [1] for ITV. It was filmed in August 2007, with Haig as Rudyard Kipling and Daniel Radcliffe as John Kipling. [2] The American television premiere was on 20 April 2008 on PBS, with primetime rebroadcast on 27 March 2011. [3]
Three of these date from the same period: an untitled vernacular poem ("My girl she gave me the go onst") taken from a short story, The Courting of Dinah Shadd, in Life's Handicap (1891); Bobs (1893), a poem praising Lord Roberts; and The Absent-Minded Beggar (1899), a poem written to raise funds for the families of soldiers called up for the ...
“Jack always had that scene in his head from day one,” Big Boys’s director Jim Archer tells me via email. “What was tricky to get right was the balance of truth and story,” he says.
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Pages in category "Poetry by Rudyard Kipling" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total. ... My Boy Jack (poem) P. A Pilgrim's Way; R. Recessional ...