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Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart (1880-1963)

Lt. General Carton de Wiart was a British army officer who served in the Second Boer War and both World Wars. He was wounded repeatedly throughout his career and was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip and ear. During WWI he was shot twice in the face, losing his left eye and part of an ear. Later in the war his hand was shattered beyond repair by artillery fire. When a doctor refused to amputate the ruined hand, de Wiart pulled his fingers off himself. At age 36, de Wiart received the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the British armed forces. During WWII he survived two plane crashes and tunneled out of an Italian prison camp.