In what novel do we read about the adventures of John Clayton, Jr.?
We, of course, know him by another, more famous name.

John Clayton Jr was Tarzan , by Edgar Rice Burroughs

I may as well give Jenny a follw-up question. Maybe I can stump her with one of them.
Yes, Tarzan is correct. Now, for extra credit, what does Tarzan mean and who was his ape-mother?

Tarzan means 'White skin' in ape language.
The gorilla who was his ape mother was called Kala.

Lady, you ARE good. OK, What was Tarzan's son's name, and what war did he fight in?

The son's name was 'Boy', he was the only survivor of a plane crash.

I'm still working on the war bit!

Tarzan and Jane, (Lord and Lady Greystroke) called their son Jack. I assume that his name was John, like his father's. I do not remember if he was a natural child or a sole survivor of a plane crash.

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It has been too long for me to remember in which book it was, but I believe Tarzan's son fought in WW I, the Great War. I remember a line that Jane said about his fighting in the Argonne. Tarzan himself, was Col. Claytom in the RAF in WW II, and was shot down in SE Asia. I think he met an Orang. Again, I do not remember the books. Perhaps someone can supply the books in which the information appeared.

I just saw an error!

Kala was not a gorilla, according to Burroughs. She was one of the "great apes." The gorrilas in the Tarzan series were called something like "Bulgani." (I'll have to double check that name.

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Tarzan of the Apes

Chapter 4 -- The Apes
The tribe of anthropoids over which Kerchak ruled with an iron hand and bared fangs, numbered some six or eight families, each family consisting of an adult male with his females and their young, numbering in all some sixty or seventy apes.

Kala was the youngest mate of a male called Tublat, meaning broken nose, and the child she had seen dashed to death was her first; for she was but nine or ten years old.

Notwithstanding her youth, she was large and powerful--a splendid, clean-limbed animal, with a round, high forehead, which denoted more intelligence than most of her kind possessed. So, also, she had a great capacity for mother love and mother sorrow.

But she was still an ape, a huge, fierce, terrible beast of a species closely allied to the gorilla, yet more intelligent; which, with the strength of their cousin, made her kind the most fearsome of those awe-inspiring progenitors of man.
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Chapter 6 -- Jungle Battles
He had taken scarce a dozen steps toward the jungle when a great form rose up before him from the shadows of a low bush. At first he thought it was one of his own people but in another instant he realized that it was Bolgani, the huge gorilla.

So close was he that there was no chance for flight and little Tarzan knew that he must stand and fight for his life; for these great beasts were the deadly enemies of his tribe, and neither one nor the other ever asked or gave quarter.

Had Tarzan been a full-grown bull ape of the species of his tribe he would have been more than a match for the gorilla, but being only a little English boy, though enormously muscular for such, he stood no chance against his cruel antagonist. In his veins, though, flowed the blood of the best of a race of mighty fighters, and back of this was the training of his short lifetime among the fierce brutes of the jungle.
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Well, I was close.