PARIS: The British poet and writer Rudyard Kipling, an ardent supporter of his country's entry into World War I, did everything he could to make sure his only son would join the fight. Yet just a few ...

Amateur historians say they have proved that headstone in French cemetery marks officer's final resting place It was the mystery Rudyard Kipling always sought to solve: the final resting place of his ...

The grave of Irish Guards Lieut John Kipling, the son of writer Rudyard Kipling, is correctly identified, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) has stated. The commission, which looks after ...

'Known unto God' - the simple, consoling epitaph on the graves of nameless soldiers will resonate next week on Remembrance Sunday. It was penned by Rudyard Kipling, the writer whose own son went ...

British poet and writer Rudyard Kipling, an ardent supporter of his country’s entry into World War I, did everything he could to make sure his only son would join the fight. Yet just a few weeks after ...

THE Ministry of Defence is investigating new evidence that a First World War grave was wrongly identified as the last resting place of Rudyard Kipling's only son. A new book, My Boy Jack?, claims that ...

When the first World War broke out in August 1914, Rudyard Kipling felt horribly vindicated. The poet of Empire believed Britain's army was pitifully small for the continental war he had warned was ...

THE volume called Traffics and Discoveries, published in 1904, marks the complete metamorphosis of Kipling. 1 The collection that preceded it, The Day’s Work, though these tendencies had already begun ...

The British poet and writer Rudyard Kipling, an ardent supporter of his country's entry into World War I, did everything he could to make sure his only son would join the fight. Yet just a few weeks ...