History Gems - The bravest Belgian you'll ever read about Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart was born in Brussels to an Irish mother and was likely to be the illegitimate son of
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Officer served in THREE wars, was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear, escaped a PoW camp and bit off his fingers when doctors refused to amputate
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