The Absent-Minded Beggar | Rudyard Kipling collectable children’s book Churchill was captured during a

Churchill was captured during a Boer ambush of an armored train

and his second wife

In the Second World War he served in home defence and organised a Home Guard unit drawn from newspaper employees

missionary stations

richly coloured morocco onlays and attractive marbled endpapers

The Absent-Minded Beggar | Rudyard Kipling collectable children’s book Churchill was captured during aPublished by Eyre & Spottiswoode for The Daily Mail, London, 1899. First Illustrated Edition. A striking piece of Boer War ephemera and Kiplingiana, this is the first illustrated edition of Rudyard Kiplings patriotic poem The Absent Minded Beggar, famously penned at the outbreak of the Second Boer War to support the families of British reservists. Sales of this publication helped raise significant funds through The Daily Mails charitable appeal. Folio