Wednesday, July 31, 2013

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Saturday, July 13, 2013

Adian Carton de Wiart

Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart (5 May 1880 – 5 June 1963), was   a British Army officer of Belgian and Irish descent. He served in the Boer War, First World War, and Second World War; was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear; survived a plane crash; tunneled out of a POW camp; and bit off his own fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them. He later wrote that "Frankly I had enjoyed the war" when describing his service in the First World War.     ~Wikipedia entry

Thursday, July 11, 2013