THANK you to Jonathan Pullen of Weymouth who wrote to Looking Back after enjoying our recent article on the centenary of the Battle of Loos.

It reminded Jonathan that his uncle Lieutenant John Aubrey Parke, nicknamed Pip, fell on the first day of the battle, September 25 1915.

He wrote: "Like so many of his comrades in arms, he was never found.

"My grandparents lived near Moreton railway station (I think their house, formerly Moreton Heath, is Deerleap House) and Uncle John, like his older brother, Walter, who had been killed in action in 1914, followed family tradition by joining the Durham Light Infantry.

"One or two letters home from John survive -written as far as I can tell to his younger first cousin, Nat Kindersley (later my godfather) who was a pupil of Winchester College."

John Parke is commemorated on Panels 36 and 38 of the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres.

Also among the fallen of the Battle of Loos was John Kipling, the son of poet Rudyard Kipling.

He died two days after John Parke on September 27 1915.

Rudyard Kipling went on to write the poem My Boy Jack about his late son.

Jonathan said: "I own a tattered volume entitled, A Song Of The English, by Rudyard Kipling, with illustrations by W.Heath Robinson, which was published on behalf of The Daily Telegraph National Bands Fund, and which is prefaced by a speech he delivered at The Mansion House on January 27 1915."