Adrian Carton de Wiart
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Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart, was a British Army officer. 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 fingers when a doctor declined to amputate them. Describing his experiences in the First World War, he wrote, "Frankly, I had enjoyed the war."
Lieutenant Colonel Carton de Wiart during the First World War
Carton de Wiart as a lieutenant with the 4th Dragoon Guards at Muttra in September 1904
Painting by Sir William Orpen, 1919 (National Portrait Gallery, London)
Adrian Carton de Wiart during World War II, photographed by Cecil Beaton
Polish–Ukrainian War
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The Polish–Ukrainian War, from November 1918 to July 1919, was a conflict between the Second Polish Republic and Ukrainian forces.
Polish–Ukrainian and Polish–Soviet Wars early 1919.
"Lwów Eaglets – the defence of the cemetery" by Wojciech Kossak (1926). Oil on canvas, Polish Army Museum, Warsaw. A painting depicting Polish youths in the Battle of Lemberg (1918) (in Polish historiography called the Defense of Lwów) against the West Ukrainian People's Republic proclaimed in Lviv.
Final stage of the Polish–Ukrainian War.
Dmytro Vitovsky, first commander of the Ukrainian Galician Army, flanked by two officers, 1918.