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My Boy Jack?
- The Search for Kipling's Only Son
- Narrated by: Bruce Cullen
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
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Summary
My Boy Jack is the extraordinary story of Kipling's search for his son. John Kipling was reported missing in the Battle of Loos on the Western Front in 1915. His father, Rudyard, had pulled strings to get his myopic son into the firing line. Devastated at the loss of his only son, Rudyard undertook the sad mission to find John's grave but tragically never succeeded in his quest.
Yet in 1992, 77 years later, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission took the exceptional step of naming a previously unknown soldier buried in St. Mary's ADS CWGC Cemetery in France as John Kipling. The authors, Tonie and Valmai Holt, intrigued by this unusual and newsworthy action felt drawn into taking the investigation further, to examine the evidence and to question the identification.
The result of their research, much of it from previously unpublished sources, found John to be likeable, humorous, extraordinarily unspoiled by his father's fame and a remarkably good and, in his final hours, brave young officer. The book also reveals the devastating effect that John's death had on his father and on his subsequent work
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- Mr. Timothy R. Rogers
- 29-06-23
My Boy Jack?
Excellent story - but wasn’t keen on the voiceover though - after a while the rather imperious ‘affected’ tone got tedious - mispronouncing of certain French place names was surprising and at some points lines were repeated and should have been edited out.
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