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Died. Lieut. General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, 83, one of Britain's best-known soldiers, the proud possessor of eleven battle wounds and many more decorations for valor, a lanky Oxonian who lost his left eye battling dervishes in Somaliland, and his left hand during a grenade charge at Ypres in 1915, and became Churchill's military envoy to Chiang Kai-shek in World War II; in Killinardrish, Ireland...
Guard the Clothes. Boyd and Leeming were soon joined by several tons of British brass (including Lieut. General Philip Neame and Major General Adrian Carton de Wiart). As the war went on, discipline was formalized-by Italian standards. For example, since none of the Italian garrison knew how to assemble a new machine gun, the British prisoners were asked to assist; the British obliged, thoughtfully omitting to install several vital parts. When the captives were taken on a picnic, the Italian officers and guards joined them for a swim, leaving a British general on shore to guard the clothes...
...Badoglio Government, worried over his failure to report promptly, had sent out another mission to Lisbon. Again an Italian general was chosen, but now, as evidence of good faith, a captured British officer accompanied him. The officer was red-faced, one-armed, one-eyed Major General Adrian Carton de Wiart, one of the Empire's famed warriors, who had been captured by the Italians in 1941. London's Express called General de Wiart a "real-life, elusive Pimpernel." Not obliged to return to Italy, he turned up in London, while his Italian traveling companion went on to General...
...Also captured last week after a tank fight at the outpost of el-Mechili were Major General Michael Denham Gambier-Parry, tank strategist, and 2,000 men. Also captured in Libya, apparently while flying out to Egypt from Britain via Gibraltar and Malta, was Major General Adrian Carton de Wiart, who unhappily commanded British troops in central Norway last year...
...theory that they would stand the climate best, Canadians and rugged Scots regiments made up the initial British force. At their head was Major General Adrian Carton de Wiart, a 60-year oldster chosen not merely because he is Belgian-born and can thus speak freely to his French allies, but because he has a long record of commanding where shot & shell are thickest. A Boer and World War I veteran, he has won a V. C. and lost an eye and a hand in the King's service. The General has every reason for wanting another crack...