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Elsie Bambridge
Elsie Bambridge (née Kipling; 2 February 1896 – 24 May 1976) was the daughter of English writer Rudyard Kipling and Caroline Starr Balestier. She was the only one of the Kipling's three children to survive beyond adolescence.
On 22 October 1924, Elsie Kipling married George Bambridge and in 1938 they bought Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire's largest stately home. Her obituary, in "The Times", stated she had two missions in life, "to maintain the traditions of her husband Captain George Bambridge and
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There is then a flashback to a time when Jack was only seven, showing Jack and Elsie with their father.
Plot Act Three.
It is now 1924, and Elsie is marrying George Bambridge. Her parents, though still missing Jack, are beginning to move on; they are happy for Elsie. Kipling has been interviewing soldiers from Jack's regiment of Irish Guards. One of them who served under Jack recalls his last moments. Jack had been leading a charge against the German trenches, continuing