KIPLING, HARRY

Rank: Private

Service No: 28252

Date of Death: 21/03/1918

Age: 34

Regiment/Service: Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

2nd/5th Bn.

Panel Reference Bay 7.

Memorial ARRAS MEMORIAL

Additional Information:

Son of Annie Marie Jacques (formerly Kipling), of 8, Renishaw Rd., Marston Moor, Chesterfield, and the late Harry Kipling.

The 2nd/5th battalion of the Sherwood Foresters was part of 176th Brigade in the 59th

(2nd North Midland) Division. Harry died on the first day of the Battle of St Quentin,

in the Somme area.

After suffering heavy casualties from German shellfire on 21 March, the enemy infantry succeeded in breaking through the Division's position where it met that of 6th Division in the valley of the River Hirondelle. Parties held on and continued to resist but were gradually destroyed and "mopped up". Fewer than 100 men of the 176th and 178th Brigades which had been holding the front line before the attack were assembled at roll call. Two battalion commanding officers were killed in action. At 7pm, the Division was officially relieved but 177th Brigade and various parties of ancillary units remained to take part in the continued defence.

1911Bolsover, Derbyshire

1901 Stavely, Derbyshire

1891 Allen Street, Sheffield

Harry senior was the son of Jervis Kipling (b1821) of the Notts Kipling family group.

KIPLING, EBENEZER JOHN

Rank: Lance Corporal

Service No: 5/4840

Date of Death: 22/03/1918

Regiment/Service: King's Royal Rifle Corps

11th Bn.

Panel Reference Panel 61 to 64.

Memorial POZIERES MEMORIAL

5th and 6th (Reserve) Battalions August 1914 : in Winchester. Depot/training units, they moved on mobilisation to Sheerness and remained in this area throughout the war. In 1918 the 6th Bn was at nearby Queenborough. Both were part of the Thames & Medway Garrison.

11th (Service) Battalion Formed at Winchester in September 1914 as part of K2 and came under orders of 59th Brigade in 20th (Light) Division. Moved to Blackdown, going on in February 1915 to Witley and then in April to Larkhill. 21 July 1915 : landed at Boulogne.

Ebenezer was mobilised from the reserves at the start of the war and, until his death in

1918, his only hospitalisation was for frostbite and an STD.

Ebenezer died on the second day of the Battle of St Quentin, in which the 20th

division took part.

Ebenezer was born in 1896, the son of french polisher Ebenezer Kipling and his wife

Ellen. He was baptised at St James the Less, Bethnal Green, in 1901. Not surprisingly,

he is of the Ebenezer Kipling family group.

1911 Arragon Road, East Ham

He left a short will, leaving everything to his mother.

KIPLING, GEORGE HENRY

Rank: Private

Service No: 235238

Date of Death: 24/03/1918

Age: 20

Regiment/Service: Leicestershire Regiment

2nd/4th Bn.

Grave Reference III. J. 47.

Cemetery DERNANCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

Additional Information:

Son of Henry and Elizabeth Kipling, of Oldcotes, Rotherham, Yorks

Location Information

Dernancourt is a village 3 kilometres south of Albert. The Communal Cemetery is a little west of the village, and the Extension is on the north-west side of the Communal Cemetery.

Visiting Information

The location or design of this site makes wheelchair access impossible.

Historical Information

Field ambulances used the Communal Cemetery for Commonwealth burials from September 1915 to August 1916, and again during the German advance of March 1918. It contains 127 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. The XV Corps Main Dressing Station was formed at Dernancourt in August 1916, when the adjoining EXTENSION was opened. The 45th and 56th (1st/1st South Midland) Casualty Clearing Stations came in September 1916 and remained until March 1917. The 3rd Australian was here in March and April 1917, and the 56th from April 1917 to February 1918. The 3rd Casualty Clearing Station came in March 1918 but on 26 March, Dernancourt was evacuated ahead of the German advance, and the extension remained in their hands until the village was recaptured on 9 August 1918 by the 12th Division and the 33rd American Division. In September it was again used by the 47th, 48th and 55th Casualty Clearing Stations under the name of "Edgehill", due to the rising ground on the north-west. At the Armistice, the Extension contained more than 1,700 burials; it was then enlarged when graves were brought in from isolated positions in the immediate neighbourhood and certain small cemeteries, including:- MOOR CEMETERY, EDGEHILL, DERNANCOURT, was about 800 metres West, near the top of the hill. It contained the graves of 42 soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell on the 23rd-25th March, 1918.

Name: George Henry Kipling

Birth Place: Blyth, Northumberland

Residence: Blyth, Northumberland

Death Date: 24 Mar 1918

Death Location: France & Flanders

Enlistment Location: Retford, Notts

The 2nd /4th battalion of the Leicestershire Regiment was in 177th Brigade, 59th (2nd

North Midland) Division. They were also involved in the Battle of St Quentin, and it

seems that George Henry died of wounds sustained in that battle.

After suffering heavy casualties from German shellfire on 21 March, the enemy infantry succeeded in breaking through the Division's position where it met that of 6th Division in the valley of the River Hirondelle. Parties held on and continued to resist but were gradually destroyed and "mopped up". Fewer than 100 men of the 176th and 178th Brigades which had been holding the front line before the attack were assembled at roll call. Two battalion commanding officers were killed in action. At 7pm, the Division was officially relieved but 177th Brigade and various parties of ancillary units remained to take part in the continued defence.

The sad news of the death in action of Pte. Geo. Henry Kipling, only son of Mr. and

Mrs. G. Kipling, of Blyth, was received by wire this week, this cast a gloom over the

village. The deceased was called up from farm work last year and joined the

Leicesters, and was in France ten months. Great sympathy is felt for Mr. and Mrs.

Kipling in their loss, he was the only son.

Worksop Guardian 19 April 1918

Memorial column in churchyard of St Mark's Church, Oldcotes

1911 Blyth, Nottinghamshire

His father, Henry, was the son of Joseph Kipling (b 1842 Mattersea, Notts) of the

Notts Kipling family group). George Henry was born in Blyth, Notts, not Blyth,

Northumberland as the record above mistakenly states.

Nottingham Evening Post - Saturday 14 April 1928

KIPLING, ALBERT EDWARD

Rank: Private

Service No: 7429

Date of Death: 25/03/1918

Age: 24

Regiment/Service: Northumberland Fusiliers

14th Bn.

Panel Reference Panel 16 to 18.

Memorial POZIERES MEMORIAL

Additional Information:

Son of Mrs. B. A. Kipling, of 29, Crispin St., Bentinck, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

14th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers) Formed at Newcastle in September 1914 as part of K3 and came under orders of 21st Division as Army Troops. January 1915 : converted into Pioneer Battalion. Landed in France September 1915.

The 21st Division was in action in the so-called First Battle of Bapaume on 24-25

March (in fact, a disorganised retreat) and had also been in action at the Battle of St

Quentin on 21-23 March.

1911 Mill Lane, Elswick, Newcastle

1881 Darlington

1851 Arkengarthdale

Albert was therefore of the Arkengarthdale group.

KIPLING, JOHN BLAKE

Rank: Private

Service No: G/20466

Date of Death: 03/04/1918

Regiment/Service: Royal Sussex Regiment

9th Bn.

Panel Reference Panel 46 and 47.

Memorial POZIERES MEMORIAL

The battalion was in the 73rd Brigade in 24th Division. The 24th division was in

action in the battles of Rosieres (28-29 March 1918) and the Arve (4th April),

retreating in the face of the massive German attack on the Somme.

Name: John Kipling

Birth Place: Cotherstone, Durham

Death Date: 3 Apr 1918

Death Location: British Expeditionary Force

Enlistment Location: Barnard Castle

Rank: Private

Regiment: Royal Sussex Regiment

Battalion: 9th Battalion

Number: G/20466

Type of Casualty: Killed in action

John is also commemorated on the Royal Sussex Regiment memorial in Chichester

Cathedral.

1901 Cotherstone

I think it is likely that he is also the “T B Kipling” whose name is inscribed on the war

memorial and in the parish church at BC.

KIPLING, Jonathan Elisha

Rank: Private

Service No: 18179

Date of Death: 08/08/1918

Age: 44

Regiment/Service: Essex Regiment

10th Bn.

Grave Reference III. C. 14.

Cemetery DIVE COPSE BRITISH CEMETERY, SAILLY-LE-SEC

Additional Information:

Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Kipling; husband of Eliza Ellen Adger (formerly Kipling), of 23, Kempton Rd., East Ham, London. Native of Bethnal Green, London

1878 Bethnal Green St James the Great

1891 Bethnal Green

John Kipling married Eliza Ellen Clark in 1897 at Bethnal Green

This means Jonathan is of the Ebenezer group.

Location Information

Sailly-le-Sec is a village in the Department of the Somme, about 20 kilometres east of Amiens. The Cemetery is a little more than 1.5 kilometres north-east of Sailly church.

Historical Information

In June 1916, before the Somme offensive, the ground north of the cemetery was chosen for a concentration of field ambulances, which became the XIV Corps Main Dressing Station. Dive Copse was a small wood close by, under the Bray-Corbie road, named after the officer commanding this station. Plots I and II were filled with burials from these medical units between July and September 1916. In the spring of 1918, the cemetery was lost during the German advance; Plot III contains the graves of 77 men who died in August 1918 when it was retaken. This plot also contains graves brought in from scattered sites and small cemeteries in the neighbourhood, the most significant being:- ESSEX CEMETERY, Sailly-le-Sec, which was 900 metres further North, on the edge of the Bray-Corbie road. It was begun by the 10th Essex Regiment in August, 1918, and it contained the graves of 30 soldiers from the United Kingdom and three from Australia.

Essex regiment 10th (Service) Battalion Sept 1914 Formed at Warley and then moved to Shorncliffe as part of the 53rd Brigade of the 18th Division and then moved to Colchester. Mar 1915 Moved to Codford St. Mary. 26.07.1915 Mobilised for war and landed at Boulogne and engaged in various actions on the Western Front including; 1916 The Battle of Albert, The Battle of Bazentin Ridge, The Battle of Delville Wood, The Battle of Thiepval Ridge, The Battle of the Ancre Heights, The Battle of the Ancre.

1917 Operations on the Ancre, The German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, The Third Battle of the Scarpe, The Battle of Pilkem Ridge, The Battle of Langemarck, First Battle of Passchendaele, The Second Battle of Passchendaele. 1918 The Battle of St Quentin, The Battle of the Avre, The actions of Villers-Brettoneux, The Battle of Amiens, The Battle of Albert, The Second Battle of Bapaume, The Battle of Epehy, The Battle of the St Quentin Canal, The Battle of the Selle, The Battle of the Sambre. 11.11.1918 Ended the war at Le Cateau, France.

The Day We Won The War: Turning Point At Amiens, 8 August 1918. Charles Messenger

KIPLING, HERBERT

Rank: Private

Service No: 62466

Date of Death: 27/08/1918

Regiment/Service: King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

5th Bn.

Panel Reference Panel 8.

Memorial VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL

The 5th battalion of the KOYLI was in the 187th Brigade in 62nd (West Riding)

Division. This Brigade was in action in the Arras sector in late August as described

below.

The Advance to Vaulx-Vraucourt On 24.8.18 orders were received from VI Corps that the advance on Vaulx-Vraucourt was to be continued on 25.8.18. that the relief of 3 Div was postponed, and that 62 Div was to relieve two brigades of 2 Div instead. The next day, 25.8.18, 62 Div attacked on a 4 km front between Ervillers and Sapignies eastwards towards Mory. Mory was taken and the line Mory - Favreuil reached. That evening heavy enemy counter-attacks were beaten off and 37 Div (in IV Corps and on the right of 62 Div) took Favreuil. On 26.8.18 the front was advanced about 1 km to a line through Beugnâtre. On 27.8.18 little progress was made but on 28.8.18 the division pushed forward to a line roughly following the Beugnâtre – Écoust-Saint-Mein road. During the day Maj Gen Sir Robert Whigham KCB DSO took over command of 62 Div from Maj Gen W.P.Braithwaite CB, who left to command IX Corps. The following day, 29.8.18, little progress was made despite hard fighting. On 30.8.18 Vraucourt and Vaulx-Vraucourt were attacked with the assistance of eight Mk V tanks. This attack continued with varying fortune through 31.8.18 and the next day, but by the end of 1.9.18 Vraucourt and Vaulx-Vraucourt had been cleared and the 62 Div line ran north to south just east of Vaulx-Vraucourt. (These operations took place on the southern edge of the Battle of the Scarpe 1918 – 21.8.18 to 31.8.18 – though just outside the area of the battle as defined by the Battles Nomenclature Committee.)

http://penhey.name/ompwxb262Div(print(p).htm

1911 Queen Street, Greengates, Bradford.

1891 Ferncliffe View, Calverley

Herbert was of the Bishop Thornton Kipling family group.

KIPPLING, GEORGE

Rank: Private

Service No: 2383482

Date of Death: 02/09/1918

Age: 33

Regiment/Service: Canadian Infantry

78th Bn.

Grave Reference B. 27.

Cemetery BEAURAINS ROAD CEMETERY, BEAURAINS

Additional Information:

Son of Edward Kippling, of Minaki, Ontario.

The cemetery was begun a few days before Beaurains was captured by Commonwealth forces on 18 March 1917. It was a month before the Battle of Arras began, and the Germans were still in nearby Tilloy-les-Mofflaines. The cemetery was used (sometimes under the name of Ronville Forward Cemetery) until the beginning of June by the 14th (Light) Division Burial Officer and by fighting units. It was used again for a short time in August and September 1918, in the Second Battle of Arras. It contained, at the date of the Armistice, the graves of 129 British soldiers, 15 French soldiers and four German prisoners. It was enlarged after the armistice when graves were brought in from the surrounding battlefields and the following cemeteries.

1891 Rat Portage East, Ontario

Edward was of the Hudson group (b1848, Manitoba; Edward, George, John, John).

The 78th battalion of the CEF were the Winnipeg Grenadiers.

Assault and Capture of the Drocourt-Quéant Line

A dark night, free from rain, preceded the attack on September 2 1918. It was after midnight before every battalion commander had issued his

operation order, and by the time all the assaulting troops were in their assembly trenches dawn was not far off. Its arrival coincided, as planned,

with zero hour, and with it came the tremendous crash that opened the barrage.

The second phase of the attack began soon after eight, when the 78th Battalion, until now held in reserve, attempted to push forward on the right of

the 10th Brigade. But it could make little headway against the storm of machine-gun fire coming out of Villers-lez-Cagnicourt and from a sugar-

beet processing plant at the crossroads north-east of the village. A mile east of the sunken road, on a ridge extending from Buissy to Saudemont,

German artillerymen were firing over open sights. By nine o'clock the 78th had been brought to a halt 200 yards east of the sunken road

http://www3.nfb.ca/ww1/search-vis-

material.php?search_in=ressources&q=&id_film=531520&act=film&id_doc=595613

KIPLING, WILLIAM

Rank: Private

Service No: 51358

Date of Death: 10/09/1918

Regiment/Service: East Yorkshire Regiment

1st Bn.

Panel Reference Panel 4.

Memorial VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL

The 1st battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment was part of the 64th Brigade in the

21st Division in 1918. I have not been able to identify any particular action involving

the battalion on 10 September, although on 24 August it had been involved in a

difficult attack at Miraumont (between Albert and Bapaume) as part of the Second

Battles of the Somme 1918. The Division itself was in action in the Battle of

Bapaume until 3 September.

Name: William Kipling

Birth Place: Middlesbrough

Residence: Stockton-on-tees

Death Date: 10 Sep 1918

Death Location: France & Flanders

Enlistment Location: Middlesbrough

1911Tarring Street, Stockton

William was the son of boot repairer Richard Kipling of the Pitcherhouse Kipling

family group. His 18th birthday had been on 20 January 1918.

ALFRED RICHARD KIPLING

1915 Brooklyn

Alfred sen. was a son of Richard Kipling, who was a waiter living on Broadway in

1863. Richard, a barman, and his wife Elizabeth came to the USA in 1859 on board

the Switzerland. Richard is recorded as a barman (b Holborn, London; age 25) in the

1851 English census, and married Elizabeth Hague in London in 1856, his marriage

certificate shows him as the son of a John Kipling, carpenter, whom I have not yet

been able to identify.

1880 Castleton, New Jersey

John Thomas Kipling Rank:

Driver

Service No: 240388

Date of Death: 05/12/1918

Regiment/Service: Royal Field Artillery

transf. to (483981) Labour Corps

Grave Reference B. 23. 220.

Cemetery BOWES AND GILMONBY CEMETERY

1911 Clint Farm, Bowes

John Kipling senior was the son of William Kipling of Waterknott Farm, Baldersdale

of the Cragg Kipling family group.

KIPLING, HERBERT

Rank: Cook

Date of Death: 15/12/1918

Age: 36

Regiment/Service: Mercantile Marine

Steam Trawler "Grecian Prince" (North Shields)

Panel Reference Memorial

TOWER HILL MEMORIAL

Additional Information:

Son of the late George and Elizabeth Kipling; husband of Mary Elizabeth Kipling, of 53, Jasmine Terrace, Aberdeen. Born at Leeds

A few days prior to the eve of the meagre festivities that would be the Christmas of

1918, the fishing community of Scarborough had been shattered to learn of the loss

of two of their menfolk with the 129 tons steam trawler ‘Grecian Prince’, which had

been engulfed in a massive explosion during Sunday the 15TH of December 1918,

reportedly after trawling up a mine whilst fishing off the coast of Northern Scotland

some sixteen miles N.E. of Kinnaird Head.

Although registered in North Shields the trawler had been fishing out of Aberdeen

for some time and had been carrying a crew of ten, predominantly Scottish,

fishermen, and despite having sunk in less than five minutes, two of the Grecian

Prince’s crew had miraculously been plucked from the freezing North Sea by

another trawler that had been fishing in the vicinity of the lost trawler. However, of

the other eight members of her crew, there had been no sign.

Amongst the missing had been thirty-four years old: Second Fisherman Frank

Tindall. Born in Scarborough at No. 60 Longwestgate on Thursday the 5th of

January 1882, Frank had been the third son of Betsy and ‘fried fish shop keeper’

Benjamin Tindall.

A pupil of St Thomas’s Board School, in Longwestgate, at the age of thirteen Frank

had left formal education to begin work in Scarborough’s flourishing fishing

industry and had worked in a number of the town’s fishing vessels until 1912, when

he had moved to Aberdeen to work out of that port. Living at No.76 Victoria Road in

the Torry district of Aberdeen by the outbreak of war in August 1914, by this time

Frank had been the husband of Lilian Pickles, the Scarborough born [1888] eldest

daughter of trawler fisherman Henry and Isabella Pickles.

Also living in Aberdeen at the outbreak of hostilities had been the Grecian Prince’s

cook, and Frank Tindall’s brother in law; Herbert Kipling had been born in Leeds

during 1882, and had been the son of City of Leeds labourer George, and Elizabeth

Kipling.

Although born in the West Riding, ‘Bert’ Kipling had lived for much of his life in

Scarborough, having arrived in the town at the turn of the century he had initially

lodged with the Lenton family in Scarborough’s Mill Lane and had worked in

Scarborough as a ‘general labourer’. Married at Scarborough’s St Mary’s Parish

Church on Saturday the 27TH of September 1910 to Frank’s youngest sister [born

1885] Mary Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ Tindall, after the ceremony the couple had lived for a

while with the Tindall family at No. 14 Garibaldi Street, however, by 1912 the

couple had moved to No.53 Jasmine Terrace in Aberdeen, where their daughter, Eva,

had eventually been born.

A risky business at any time, during the war fishing had obviously become

extremely perilous due to enemy mines and the activities of a very active German

submarine force. Nevertheless, fishing had continued, and Tindall and Kipling had

survived numerous close shaves with the enemy and bad weather during the war

only to be killed, ironically, on the doorsteps of peace and during a calm night.

An incident that had taken place at a time when the world’s attention had been

focused elsewhere, the sinking of the Grecian Prince had caused barely a ripple in

the national press, and in ‘The Scarborough Mercury’ of Friday the 20TH of

December the loss of two local men had been covered in a single paragraph:

‘Two Scarborough men lost on a trawler - Two Scarborough men, Herbert Kipling

and Frank Tindall, have lost their lives by the blowing up of the trawler Egyptian

Prince by a mine’…

The same newspaper had also included the lost men’s names in its ‘Births, Death’s,

and Marriages’ section:

‘Kipling---Lost at sea, on 15TH December, with S.T. Grecian Prince, through mine

explosion. Herbert Kipling, dearly beloved husband of Lizzie Tindall---sadly missed

and deeply mourned’…

‘Tindall--- Lost at sea, December 15TH,with the S.T. Grecian Prince, through mine

explosion. Frank Tindall, dearly beloved son of Mrs. Tindall, late of 14 Garibaldi

Street—Deeply mourned by mother, sisters, and brothers’…

Neither the bodies of Frank Tindall and Herbert Kipling, nor the other six casualties

of the mining of the Grecian Princess had ever been recovered from the North Sea

and the names of the eight fishermen had eventually been included on the Tower Hill

Memorial in London. Situated on the city’s Tower Hill, this Memorial

commemorates the names of over twelve thousand officers and seamen of the British

Mercantile Marine and fishing fleet that had lost their lives during the Great War of

1914-1918 who possess no known graves but the sea.

Apart from the town’s Oliver’s Mount Memorial, in Scarborough, the names of

Frank Tindall and Herbert Kipling are perpetuated in Dean Road Cemetery [Section

F, Row 16, Grave 30] on a magnificently carved, albeit paint bespattered and

weathered, gravestone which also bears the names of the remainder of the Tindall

family including Frank’s youngest brother, Arthur Ernest, who had passed away at

the age of one year and four months, on the 19TH of May 1892 and that of his father

Benjamin Tindall, who had died at the age of forty six years, on the 22ND of June

1894.

The names of Frank Tindall and Herbert Kipling can be found on the reverse of this

memorial along with those of brothers Benjamin Jnr., who had died at the age of

forty-one years, on the 4TH of December 1913, Richard on the 29TH of October

1950, and William on the 23RD of April 1952. The memorial also contains the

names of sister Eliza, who had died on the 10TH of June 1958. The memorial also

bears the name of Margaret Tindall [born in Scarborough during 1875] but not the

date of her demise.

Although recorded on the memorial as having passed away on the 30TH of

December 1944, Herbert Kipling’s wife, Annie Elizabeth Kipling had in fact died in

Scarborough two years earlier, during Thursday the 31ST of December 1942. Never

to remarry following the demise of her husband ‘Lizzie’ Kipling’s funeral had taken

place during the afternoon of Monday the 4TH of January 1943.

http://www.scarboroughsmaritimeheritage.org.uk/greatwar/s36-post-war.php

Aberdeen Journal - Monday 16 December 1918

Aberdeen Evening Express - Tuesday 17 December 1918

Aberdeen Evening Express - Thursday 19 December 1918

1911 Aberdeen

1911 Cotton Street, Aberdeen

Dundee Courier - Monday 26 September 1910

1901 Mill Yard, Scarborough

1891 38 Nippet Terrace, Leeds

Nippet Terrace, Leeds c 1960 (38 is the right hand of the block of four)

Herbert is of the Bishop Thornton Kipling family group and was cousin to the

Herbert Kipling of the KOYLI who died earlier in the year.

Appendix

All Kiplings

1914 4% 4%

1915 14% 11%

1916 22% 15%

1917 28% 26%

1918 27% 44%

1919+ 5% 0% Distribution of Kipling deaths by year compared with total British and Commonwealth war deaths.

It is noticeable that proportionately more Kipling deaths occurred in 1918, possibly

because many were involved in ‘reserved’ occupations such as farm labour, mining

and heavy industry and were only accepted or conscripted later in the war.