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wartime letters
Rudyard Kipling Letters on the Wartime Loss of His Son to Auction
October 8, 2025
Rudyard Kipling's 18-year-old son John was reported missing in action in 1915 on the Western Front during a three-week offensive which left 61,000 wounded and nearly 8,000 dead.
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