Some people were just born for war. Adrian Carton de Wiart was one of those who couldn’t stay away from battle, no matter how many times fate told him to go home and retire. Wiart signed up for the British Army in 1899 for the Boer War, when he was still underage, by lying about his identity. He retired in 1947 in his sixties. Wiart survived a plane crash and a stint in a POW camp in Italy (from which he escaped). He recovered from gunshot wounds in most of the wars he fought, in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear, although he was left with only one eye in Somaliland and lost two fingers, then later his hand and part of his arm in World War I.
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Yet each time Wiart was wounded, he convinced his superiors to put him back into action. Oh yeah, after retiring, he broke his back and recovered from that, too. Read the thrilling and confounding story of Adrian Carton de Wiart, the most battle-scarred soldier, at Amusing Planet.
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Source: neatorama