21 September 2025

They Forgot To Build Quit Into This Guy

Perhaps the most wounded soldier ever.

Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart. VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO

He was shot in the face, head, stomach, groin, ankle, leg, hip and ear. He was also blinded in his left eye, survived two plane crashes, tunneled 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."

Posted by Angus McThag at 19:28
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  1. Technomad22 September, 2025 00:46

    The founder of the Spanish Foreign Legion (the Tercios), Jose Millan Astray, was another of that sort.

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