Adrian Carton de Wiart
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title:
Adrian Carton de Wiart
text:
Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart, was an officer in the British Army. He was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" in various Commonwealth countries. He served in the Boer War, First World War, and Second World War. He was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear; was blinded in his left eye; survived two plane crashes; tunnelled out of a prisoner-of-war camp; and tore off his own fing
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Belgian-British Army officer (1880–1963)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Carton_de_Wiart
date created:
2004-11-21T18:42:54Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T08:36:41Z
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