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Museum of London photo collection features tragic son Kipling sent to war | First world war | The Guardian
Historical fact of the day - "My Boy Jack" is a 1916 poem by Rudyard Kipling. Kipling's son Jack was killed on the Western Front in September 1915. He had only been
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