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...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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The tears started at your first read word, Paddy. At the final text came on to the screen on your video and then it ended- I just sat quietly with my mouth open and the tears streaming down my face.
ReplyDeleteHow very beautiful this segment is, thank you for creating this on your blog.
One of my all time very favorite films is "The Man who would be King" with Christopher Plummer as Rudyard Kipling. I need to dig out my well played VHS tape of it, and view it again..
and get a good volumne of Rudyard K.- any suggestions?? What is the big book you are holding in the video please?