Adrian Carton de Wiart
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Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart, was a British Army officer of Belgian and Irish descent. He was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration awarded for val
Carton de Wiart as a lieutenant-colonel 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
Jack Churchill
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John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, was a British Army officer. Nicknamed "Fighting Jack Churchill" and "Mad Jack", he fought in the Second World War with a broadsword, longbow, and a set of bagpip
Adrian Carton de Wiart
…Soldier" by Swedish power metal band Sabaton on their album The War to End all Wars. He is portrayed by Indy Neidell in the music video for the song. Jack Churchill, another notably eccentric British officer Carton de Wiart, Sir Adrian (1950). Happy Odyssey: The Memoirs of Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Carton de…
"Mad Jack" Churchill
Churchill stares down the barrel of a captured Belgian 75 mm field gun.
Jack Churchill (far right) leads a training exercise, sword in hand, from a Eureka boat in Inveraray.