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joebloggs

11th January 2015, 22:14

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someone we can all agree on, up there with Churchill and in a league of his own Adrian Carton de Wiart

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/80069000/jpg/_80069451_churchill.jpg
with churchill, he's on the far right

Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart was a one-eyed, one-handed war hero who fought in three major conflicts across six decades, surviving plane crashes and PoW camps. His story is like something out of a Boy's Own comic.

Carton de Wiart served in the Boer War, World War One and World War Two. In the process he was shot in the face, losing his left eye, and was also shot through the skull, hip, leg, ankle and ear.

In WW1 he was severely wounded on eight occasions and mentioned in despatches six times.

Having previously lost an eye and a hand in battle, Carton de Wiart, as commanding officer, was seen by his men pulling the pins of grenades out with his teeth and hurling them with his one good arm during the Battle of the Somme, winning the Victoria Cross.

read more here ..... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30685433