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You'll be a man, my son; Daniel Radcliffe as Rudyard Kipling's son, Jack.

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From: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
Date: 20071111
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Byline: NICOLA TUCKER

My Boy Jack Tonight, ITV1, 9pm

So often with triumph there is tragedy, and for Rudyard Kipling it came withthe death of his son in World War I.

John 'Jack' Kipling had terrible myopia and was rejected by the Army twice, buthis father used his social standing to get his boy into the Irish Guards.Following the Battle of Loos in 1915, the Kiplings received a telegram thatdescribed Jack as 'missing, presumed injured'.

He had gone over the top shortly after his 18th birthday. It took two years ofinquiries to find out their son's fate.

My Boy ...

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