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Grave of Rudyard Kipling's son confirmed; defense officials

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Date: 20020614
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Dateline: LONDON Defense officials said Friday they were satisfied they had correctly identified the World War I grave of Rudyard Kipling's only son at a military cemetery in France.

Lt. John Kipling was reported missing on Sept. 27, 1915. He was last seen by comrades in the "no man's land" between the British and German lines at the Battle of Loos, alive but wounded.

The celebrated author of "The Jungle Book" and "Gunga Din" refused to believe his son had died until 1919 and then spent many years scouring the battlefields and cemeteries of ...

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