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{{Personnel
|id=2101
|Surname and forenames=Kipling John Wilson
|Army number=56131
|Rank=Captain
|Date of birth=Born County Durham October 1903
|Age=37
|Unit=Durham Light Infantry - Commissioned 2/Lt 28/6/1933.  Posted 6th Bn DLI.  Embodied 24/8/1939.  Posted 10th Bn DLI 1/9/1939.  Served B.E.F.  KILLED in ACTION 20/5/1940 with 10th Bn Durham Light Infantry.
|Company/Battery=C Coy 10th Bn.
|Task or role=Company Commander.
|Joined Brigade=1/9/1939.
|Promotions=Lt 28/6/1936, A/Captain 1/9/1939, T/Captain 1/12/1939.
|Died/Killed in action=20-May-40.
|Home address=Resident of County Durham.  Educated Alderman Wraith Secondary School.  Audit Clerk, Durham County Council, qualified ACIS.  Lived at "Kirklee", Rock Road, Spennymoor, County Durham.  Son of Charles and Isabella Harrison Kipling, husband of Doris Kipling, Spennymoor.  Buried Plot 8. Row C. Grave 8.  [[BUCQUOY ROAD CEMETERY]], Ficheux.
|Image Name=Kipling_J_W_Captain.JPG
|Image Title=Captain Kipling's CWGC headstone.
|Source table=10DLI
}}

Mentioned as being known as the Company Commander by Mr Tommy Bamforth, 13/9/2014.