Source: File: Second
Lieutenant John
Kipling.jpeg [online] see an original image at: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kipling>
[19 October 2015].
Son of a writer
Rudyard Kipling,
John Kipling a
Lieutenant
In 2nd Battalion
Irish Guards,
Was on 19 October
1915
Reported as
'wounded and missing';
The only son of
Rudyard Kipling.
Kipling senior, a
keen imperialist
And patriotic figure sought
To help his son's
military ambition,
To achieve a
commission -
But John was
rejected by army
And navy over his poor eyesight.
Yet connections
for Rudyard
Included the commander
Of the British
army and
Colonel of the
Irish Guards,
Earl Frederick
Roberts Ist Earl,
Who secured him a
commission.
Having turned
seventeen
In August 1914, Second
Lieutenant
Kipling spent
Twelve months
training,
To arrive in
France on first years
Anniversary of
war, August 1915.
Above the averages
of
Other ranks, junior officers
Were in high
casualty rates;
To last roughly
six weeks -
Then likely to become
a graded
Casualty
statistic on a battlefield.
Taking part in
the major
Battle of Loos,
Lieutenant
Kipling became
involved -
Then aged 18 in
his first
Real campaign to
join the fight
In a diversity
tactic on the front.
With a month gone, news
Published John
Kipling
As missing in
action - fighting
Carried on, as an
unidentified
Body not
immediately recognised
Was Kipling - his
face destroyed.
The result of a
shell blast -
Such was a loss
of an only
Son, would then
hit hard the
Father - never to
recover
In any real sense, always to grieve
His personal loss
of 'my boy Jack'.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915. Mr
Rudyard Kipling's Son. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 19 October. P.6.
Col.5. Available at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11928883/Daily-Telegraph-October-19-1915.html
[Accessed: 19 October 2015].
Source: File: John
Kipling From
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [online] Available at: <https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/John_Kipling> [Accessed: 19 October 2015]
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 19 October 2015).
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