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Kipling memorial 'on wrong grave' A new book claims that the War Graves Commission wrongly identified the burial place of the author's son, writes David Harrison

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20020120
Author:David Harrison

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 the Commonwealth War Graves Commission - which announced 10 years ago that the grave was John Kipling's - had confused the author's son with a soldier of a different rank.

John Kipling died on September 27, 1915 in the Battle of Loos - one of the war's fiercest battles - just weeks after arriving on the Western Front in northern France.

Rudyard Kipling, who had used his contacts to obtain an ...

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