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Authors question authenticity of burial place marked as that of Kipling's son.(Brief Article)

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A new book has been published about the story of author Rudyard Kipling's search for his son John, who was reported missing during the First World War.

Rudyard Kipling and his wife Carrie reportedly spent much of their last years in an unsuccessful attempt to find his body, but in 1992 the War Graves Commission said that it had established that a previously unidentified lieutenant buried at St Mary's military cemetery in Loos, France was Kipling's son.

This claim has now been brought into question by Major Tonie ...

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