You would think no one would come back after being injured in war and claim they enjoyed it. Well, that would be wrong.
Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart served in the British Army in the Boer War, First World War, and Second World War.
He was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear; survived two plane crashes; tunnelled out of a POW camp; and bit off his own fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them.
Describing his experiences in World War I, he wrote, "Frankly I had enjoyed the war."
In his memoirs he wrote, "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."
He holds seven service awards, including the Victoria Cross, the highest award for valor awarded by the British Commonwealth.
Carton de Wiart is truly a military man.
