The Real Life "Most Interesting Man In The World!"

[OlafSicky]

Nice article. There is a large Polish connection to this person. It seems that he was quite happy in the Interwar Poland hunting...

The way I understood the article is a Polish Prince gave him an estate the size of Ireland to hunt and live on

 

[kage69]

"Governments may think and say as they like, but force cannot be eliminated, and it is the only real and unanswerable power. We are told that the pen is mightier than the sword, but I know which of these weapons I would choose." --Adrian Carton de Wiart


What a life, what a story....

And after he retired, "En route home via French Indochina, Carton de Wiart stopped in Rangoon as a guest of the army commander. Coming down stairs, he slipped on coconut matting, fell down, broke his back and several vertebrae, and knocked himself unconscious. He eventually made it to England and into a hospital where he slowly recovered. The doctors succeeded in extracting an incredible amount of shrapnel from his old wounds. He recovered and then went to Belgium to visit relatives."

Dude was tougher than a coffin nail!