PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 71, 23 November 1915, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr John Kipling, of the Irish Guards, son of Mr Rudyard Kipling, was last month reported "missing, believed to be killed.-" John Kipling was the chilli for Whom his father wrote the "Just So Stories," the ' boy for whom Puck-told immortal tales of the beloved land, for which this supieme sacrifice has now been made. Mr John Kipling was barely eighteen, a boy of delicate health, but indomitable zeal and resolution. He had been nominated -for the Irish Guards by Lord Roberts, and was determined to take his share in the war. In assenting to his urgent pleas the father—and the mother also—offere.l the dearest of all possible saennces on the altar of their country—an only sou. whose youth and health might have given . them a good reason for evading the or. deal. '•■.'•