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Jonathan Richardson

Gunga Din: an updated version of Kipling’s Barrack Room Ballad

A British soldier in the Indian Army recounting a battle in which a regimental water carrier by the name of Gunga Din saved him.

8 min readJul 15, 2022

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Gunga Din: an updated version of Kipling’s Barrack Room Ballad

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Cells: an updated version of Kipling’s Barrack Room Ballad

Cells is an NCO reminiscing about a night of drink that has landed him confined to barracks.

4 min readJul 1, 2022

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Cells: an updated version of Kipling’s Barrack Room Ballad

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Jonathan Richardson

Screw-Guns: an updated version

Rudyard Kipling’s Screw-Guns with updated language

6 min readJun 24, 2022

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Screw-Guns: an updated version

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Jonathan Richardson

Soldier, Soldier: an updated version of Kipling’s Barrack Room Ballad

This is Kipling’s reworking of the nursery rhyme, likewise a ballad from a lovestruck woman

4 min readJun 17, 2022

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Soldier, Soldier: an updated version of Kipling’s Barrack Room Ballad

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Jonathan Richardson

Fuzzy-wuzzy: an updated version of Kipling’s Barrack Room Ballad

An offensive term these days, Kipling damned the then-enemy Sudanese forces with faint praise.

6 min readJun 11, 2022

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Fuzzy-wuzzy: an updated version of Kipling’s Barrack Room Ballad

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Tommy: an updated version of Kipling’s Barrack Room Ballad

One of Kipling’s most famous Barrack Room Ballads. The disdain for the squaddie, the grunt, the boot — and attitude change when we need them

8 min readJun 3, 2022

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Victorian Happy Families card of Tommy Atkins the solider

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Jonathan Richardson

Danny Deever: an updated version of Kipling’s Barrack Room Ballad

Danny is a coward many times over — killing a man in cold blood, killing a defenceless sleeping man, killing a comrade.

6 min readMay 27, 2022

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Danny Deever: an updated version of Kipling’s Barrack Room Ballad

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Jonathan Richardson

Updating Kipling’s Barrack Room Ballads

After struggling to understand the language of the original poems I’ve revised the language to make it clearer and easier to enjoy.

7 min readMay 27, 2022

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Victorian soldier Tommy Atkins card

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Removing the fake Cockney of Kipling’s original Barrack Room Ballads to make them more accessible to the modern reader. However it does keep words and topics that may be offensive to some readers. Get in touch at modern.kipling@gmail.com
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