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Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart, [1] VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO (/ d ə ˈ w aɪ. ər t /; [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]
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On 24 August 1939, the British government, through Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Carton De Wiart, head of the British Military mission, made strong representations to Marshal Edward Śmigły-Rydz, commander-in-chief of the Polish Forces, that the most modern elements of the fleet be evacuated from the Baltic Sea. Although Śmigły-Rydz resisted ...
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Major-General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO (1880–1963) De Wiart came from a well-connected continental family and was appointed by Churchill as head of a military mission en route to Yugoslavia. He was captured when his Wellington aircraft from Malta crash-landed in the sea off the coast of North Africa in April 1941.
The landing party was under the command of Captain Edds and took up blocking positions in the hills outside town which soon attracted German aircraft. The commander, Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Carton De Wiart, V.C., flew in the next day and his Short Sunderland flying boat was strafed by German aircraft as it landed. His aide was wounded and ...
Carton de Wiart is the surname of a family of the Belgian nobility. Notable people with the surname include: Henry Carton de Wiart (1869–1951), 23rd Prime Minister of Belgium (1920–1921) Adrian Carton de Wiart (1880–1963), British general and cousin of Henry
The 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, first raised in 1685 as the Earl of Arran's Regiment of Cuirassiers.It was renamed as the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards in 1788 and service for two centuries, including the First World War, before being amalgamated with 7th Dragoon Guards (Princess Royal's), to form the 4th/7th Dragoon Guards in 1922.