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Adrian Carton de Wiart
Belgian-British Army officer (1880–1963)
This article uses a Belgian surname: the surname is Carton de Wiart, not Wiart.
Lieutenant-GeneralSir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart,[1]VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO (;[2] 5 May 1880 – 5 June 1963) was an officer in the British Army. He was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" in various Commonwealth countries.[3] 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 severely injured fingers when a doctor declined to amputate them. Describing his experiences in the First World War, he wrote, "Frankly, I had enjoyed the war."
After returning home from service (including a period as a prisoner-
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Today’s tale picks up 18th November 1914. The setting Shimber Berris, the tallest mountain in the African state of Somaliland. The Kharif, “a hot labouring wind heavy with sand” was in full force, but up in the hills that day the air was quite pleasant… Actually, a slight correction, the air was heavy with waves of red hot bullets flying in around head height. While this kind of weather isn’t to everyone’s tastes – to one man this was paradise. On this day, with little more than a few shrubs for cover, a group of British soldiers stealthily ascended the mountain.
The British had Somaliland in their sights from around 1899. The scramble for Africa was well on, and Somaliland was desirable solely because one could attack ships travelling through the Suez Canal from there. This was a threat to Britain’s trade routes, and that was reason enough for the British to conquer the Dervishes. The Dervishes’ leader Mohammed Abdullah Hassan was a Sufi poet in peacetime. Now a freedom f
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Archives West Finding Aid
Pandele, Anastas. An Appeal to the Government and People of America by the Albanian Federation of America, Vatra. 1919.
Erickson, C. Telford. Moral Leadership in World Reconstruction. Congress Hall Hotel, Washington, D.C., 1919.
Erickson, C. Telford. Cutting the Gorgon Knot. Congress Hall Hotel, Washington, D.C., 1919.
Mexi, Hristo. Mémorandum à l'usage de monsieur le président et de messieurs les membres de la Conférence de la paix: ainsi qu'á celui des commissions accessoires. Bucarest: Institut d'arts graphyques "Speranta", 1919. (Relativement aux droits de revendication des Albanais originaires des territoires restés en dehors des frontières détérminées par les Conférences de Londres et de Florence en 1913 à l'occasion de la création de l'éta