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LT John "Jack" Kipling (1897-1915) : Homenaje de Find A Grave

LT John 'Jack' Kipling, born on August 17, 1897, was the son of author Rudyard Kipling and died at the age of 18 during the Battle of Loos in World War I. Despite being medically unfit for service, he secured a commission and was reported missing after being wounded in battle. His grave was identified in 1992, and his story has been commemorated in various forms, including a book and a television adaptation.

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LT John 'Jack' Kipling, born on August 17, 1897, was the son of author Rudyard Kipling and died at the age of 18 during the Battle of Loos in World War I. Despite being medically unfit for service, he secured a commission and was reported missing after being wounded in battle. His grave was identified in 1992, and his story has been commemorated in various forms, including a book and a television adaptation.

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LT John “Jack” Kipling !


NACIMIENTO 17 Ago 1897
Rottingdean, Brighton and Hove Unitary Authority, East Sussex, England
DEFUNCIÓN 27 Sep 1915 (de 18 años de edad)
Loos-en-Gohelle, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais,
France
SEPULTURA Saint Mary's Advanced Dressing Station Cemetery
Haisnes, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
PARCELA VII. D. 2.
ID DEL 12868925 · Ver fuente
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British Army Officer. Born the youngest child and only son of prominent author Rudyard Ver más homenajes de Kipling en:
Kipling and his American born wife Caroline Starr Balestier, he was known to his family as
Saint Mary's Advanced Dressing Station
Jack. Plagued with severe nearsightedness, and was deemed medically unfit for military Cemetery
service during the First World War, he managed to secure a commission in the Irish Guards, Haisnes
however, with the weight of his father's influence behind him. On his eighteenth birthday, Departement du Pas-de-Calais
Kipling was posted to France. Within six weeks, the Battle of Loos, part of a joint Allied Nord-Pas-de-Calais
offensive on the Western Front, was entered, engaging 54 French and 13 British divisions. The France
death toll at Loos was greater than in any previous battle of the war. Eye-witnesses reported Find a Grave
seeing Kipling fall with a neck wound, but intense machine gun and shellfire made retrieval
impossible. At the battle's end he was reported wounded and missing. His grief-stricken
parents used every possible channel and every high-level contact at their disposal to obtain ¿Cómo de famoso fue LT John
news about their son in the hope that he might still be alive, even if as a prisoner of war. It was “Jack” Kipling?
not until 1919 that his death was finally accepted by his parents. In 1992, the Commonwealth
War Graves Commission announced that the grave of an unknown Irish Guards Lieutenant in
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the St Mary's ADS Cemetery was that of John Kipling although the decision has been 62 votos
Añadida por David Seall disputed. The Imperial War Museum in London mounted an exhibition to tell the story of John Inicie sesión para votar.
Kipling in 2007. Jack's story was told in the book "My Boy Jack?: The Search for Kipling's Only
Son" by Tonie and Valmai Holt, which was turned into a play by David Haig and filmed for
British television in 2007 with Daniel Radcliffe as John, David Haig as Rudyard Kipling, and
Kim Cattrall as Caroline Kipling.

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Miembros de la familia
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Rudyard Kipling Josephine Kipling
1865–1936 1892–1899
Caroline Starr Balestier Kipling Elsie Kipling Bambridge
1862–1939 1896–1976

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