Word: ornito
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ornito in Italy Sir Walter laboriously helped a badly wounded colonel, far bigger than himself, across a thousand yards of rocky ground under heavy fire to an aid station. At the islands of Solta, Mljet and Braĉ off the Dalmatian coast his "utter contempt for artillery and mortar fire had a very valuable and steadying effect and won for him the respect and devotion of the men of the Commandos" -as well it might. Heirless Sir Walter was old enough to be their grandfather...
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