Shortly after war was declared in 1914, John (Jack) Kipling, who was medically unfit for military service due to his severe short-sightedness, secured a Commission in the Irish Guards thanks to his father’s (Rudyard Kipling) influence. John was posted to France on his eighteenth birthday and was reported wounded and missing, six weeks later in his first action, on 27 September 1915. John’s grief-stricken parents used all possible channels and every high-level contact to establish news about their son in the hope that he might still be alive, possibly as a prisoner of war. It was not until 1919 that they finally accepted that he had died...
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Tuesday, 11 May 2010
My Boy Jack by Rudyard Kipling.
Shortly after war was declared in 1914, John (Jack) Kipling, who was medically unfit for military service due to his severe short-sightedness, secured a Commission in the Irish Guards thanks to his father’s (Rudyard Kipling) influence. John was posted to France on his eighteenth birthday and was reported wounded and missing, six weeks later in his first action, on 27 September 1915. John’s grief-stricken parents used all possible channels and every high-level contact to establish news about their son in the hope that he might still be alive, possibly as a prisoner of war. It was not until 1919 that they finally accepted that he had died...
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