Jungle Books, Just so Stories and Kim. He was also a champion of the common British soldier and many of his
poems reflect this. He died in 1936.
If your officer's dead and the sergeants look white,
Remember it's ruin to run from a fight:
So take open order, lie down, and sit tight,
And wait for supports like a soldier.
Wait, wait, wait like a soldier . . .
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier of the Queen!
from A Young British Soldier by Rudyard Kipling
Below: a typed note to a Miss Edna Sherman fulfilling a request for Mr. Kipling's autograph.
Cabinet Photograph
Unknown - Photographer
Unknown Location
c. 1900
