MILITARY PERSONNEL

Adrian Carton de Wiart

1880 - 1963

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Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart, (; 5 May 1880 – 5 June 1963) was a British Army officer of Belgian and Irish descent. He was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" in various Commonwealth countries. He served in the Boer War, First World War, and Second World War. He was shot in the face, head, stomach, groin, ankle, leg, hip, and ear. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adrian Carton de Wiart is the 1,105th most popular military personnel (up from 1,415th in 2019), the 360th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 459th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Belgian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Adrian Carton de Wiart ranks 1,105 out of 2,058. Before him are Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov, Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, Tatikios, Isamu Chō, Adherbal, and Jacques François Dugommier. After him are Wesley Clark, Oskar von Hutier, Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Raden Wijaya, Dan Halutz, and Abraham Duquesne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Adrian Carton de Wiart ranks 96. Before him are Eric Lemming, Lytton Strachey, Eric Campbell, Lincoln Ellsworth, Ildebrando Pizzetti, and Albert W. Hull. After him are Frigyes Riesz, Ivar Kreuger, Walter Hohmann, Gabriel Voisin, Sholem Asch, and Leonard Woolf. Among people deceased in 1963, Adrian Carton de Wiart ranks 82. Before him are Jacques Villon, Ernesto Lecuona, Berthold, Margrave of Baden, Ernst Kantorowicz, Henri Masson, and Jacob Gade. After him are Alfred Wünnenberg, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Luis Cernuda, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Sophus Nielsen, and Ramón Gómez de la Serna.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Adrian Carton de Wiart ranks 360 out of 1,190. Before him are Amélie Nothomb (1967), Louis Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium (1833), Heinrich von Veldeke (1150), Godfrey I, Count of Namur (1068), François de Cuvilliés (1695), and Franky Van der Elst (1961). After him are Antoinette de Mérode (1828), Gustave de Molinari (1819), Marc Wilmots (1969), Willy Mairesse (1928), Sylvère Maes (1909), and Paul Janssen (1926).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Belgium

Among military personnels born in Belgium, Adrian Carton de Wiart ranks 6. Before him are Charles Martel (688), Maxime Weygand (1867), Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly (1559), Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz (1787), and Charles Eugène de Croÿ (1651). After him are Nicholas, Count of Salm (1459), Johann Peter Beaulieu (1725), William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford (1020), and Gérard Leman (1851).

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