1. Second Lieutenant John Kipling was a British Army officer.
12 Facts About John Kipling
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John Kipling was born at North End House, Rottingdean in Sussex.
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John Kipling was educated at St Aubyn's, Rottingdean, and Wellington College, Berkshire.
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John Kipling was 16 when the First World War broke out in August 1914.
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Rudyard sought to get his son a commission, but John Kipling was rejected by the Royal Navy due to severe short-sightedness.
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John Kipling was initially rejected by the army for the same reason.
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However, Rudyard Kipling was friends with Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, a former Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, and Colonel of the Irish Guards, and through this influence, John Kipling was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the 2nd Battalion, Irish Guards on 15 August 1914, two days before his seventeenth birthday.
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John Kipling's father was already there on a visit, serving as a war correspondent.
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John Kipling was reported injured and missing in action in September 1915 during the Battle of Loos.
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John Kipling's parents searched vainly for him in field hospitals and interviewed comrades to try to identify what had happened.
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The death of John inspired Rudyard Kipling to become involved with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and write a wartime history of the Irish Guards.
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The grave of John Kipling was identified by military historian Norm Christie, then Records Officer of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, in 1992, and Kipling was officially listed as buried in St Mary's ADS Cemetery in Haisnes.