Just for information - The Irish Times posts on Facebook today 20 May an article from 2015 about Kipling and the Great War, with special reference to John Kipling in the 2nd battalion of the Irish Guards: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/rudyard-kipling-s-first-world-war-tragedy-1.2190731#.WwBCZLfWQ_c.facebook 

John Seriot, Norway

Rudyard Kipling’s first World War tragedy - The Irish Times www.irishtimes.com The Nobel laureate and staunch imperialist was one of hundreds of thousands of British and Irish parents to lose a son to the war