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	Adrian Carton de Wiart Information
		Carton De Wiart was not particularly close to his father, who was a quiet, indoors sort of man. At an early opportunity his new stepmother sent him to a boarding school in England, the Roman Catholic Oratory School in Edgbaston, Birmingham, founded by John Henry Cardinal Newman.
		Carton de Wiart was well connected in European circles, his two closest cousins being Henri Carton de Wiart, Prime Minister of Belgium from 1920 to 1921, and Edmond Carton de Wiart, political secretary to the King of Belgium and director of "La Societe Generale de Belgique".
		Carton De Wiart's Polish idyll was interrupted by oncoming war in July 1939 when he was summoned back to the colours and appointed to his old job, as head of the British Military Mission to Poland.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Adrian_Carton_de_Wiart (4165 words)

	Henri Carton de Wiart at AllExperts
		Henri Carton de Wiart (January 31, 1869 - May 6 1951) was Prime Minister of Belgium from November 20, 1920 to May 6, 1921.
		Born in Brussels, Carton De Wiart studied law and became a lawyer.
		Carton de Wiart was a cousin of the famous British general, Sir Adrian Carton De Wiart.
	en.allexperts.com /e/h/he/henri_carton_de_wiart.htm (242 words)

	Adrian Carton de Wiart - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		De Wiart was in the thick of the fighting on the Western Front, commanding successively a brigade and three infantry batallions.
		Carton De Wiart's Polish idyll was interrupted by oncoming war in July 1939 when he was summoned back to the colours and appointed to his old job, as head of the British Military Mission to Poland.
		Carton de Wiart was to accompany an Italian negotiator, General Zanussi, to Lisbon to meet Allied contacts to facilitate the surrender.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Adrian_Carton_de_Wiart (3592 words)

	tScholars.com \| Namsos campaign (Site not responding. Last check: )
		De Wiart made the decision, because of unopposed enemy air activity, to divert his large, slow and vulnerable troopships one hundred miles northwards to Lillesjona where they would be offloaded to destroyers for a fast run into Namsos.
		Carton De Wiart showed considerable vigour in managing the landing and dispersal of troops and supplies in such a way as to get them off the ships and into the hills during the five hours of darkness prevailing in Namsos in late April.
		Carton De Wiart was to bitterly regret the lack of artillery, antiaircraft guns and motor transport.
	www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Namsos_campaign (3184 words)

	Namsos campaign
		De Wiart made the decision, because of unopposed enemy air activity, to divert his large, slow and vulnerable troopships one hundred miles northwards to Lillesjona where they would be offloaded to destroyers for a fast run into Namsos.
		Carton De Wiart showed considerable vigour in managing the landing and dispersal of troops and supplies in such a way as to get them off the ships and into the hills during the five hours of darkness prevailing in Namsos in late April.
		Carton De Wiart was to bitterly regret the lack of artillery, antiaircraft guns and motor transport.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/n/na/namsos_campaign.html (3410 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Adrian Carton de Wiart
		Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO, (May 5, 1880 - June 5, 1963), was a British officer of Belgian and Irish descent.
		Carton de Wiart was well connected in European circles, his two closest cousins being, respectively, Henri Carton de Wiart, Prime Minister of Belgium from 1920 to 1921, and Edmond Carton de Wiart, political secretary to the King of Belgium and director of "La Societe Generale de Belgique".
		De Wiart was a high profile prisoner and was transferred to a special prison for senior officers, first at Castello di Vincigliati and then at Fiesole, just outside Florence.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Adrian-Carton-de-Wiart (532 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Adrian Carton de Wiart
		Carton De Wiart was not particularly close to his father, who was a quiet, indoors sort of man. At an early opportunity his new stepmother sent him to a boarding school in England, the Roman Catholic Oratory School in Edgbaston, Birmingham, founded by John Henry Cardinal Newman.
		Carton de Wiart was well connected in European circles, his two closest cousins being Henri Carton de Wiart, Prime Minister of Belgium from 1920 to 1921, and Edmond Carton de Wiart, political secretary to the King of Belgium and director of La Société Générale de Belgique.
		Carton De Wiart's Polish idyll was interrupted by oncoming war in July 1939 when he was summoned back to the colours and appointed to his old job, as head of the British Military Mission to Poland.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Adrian_Carton_de_Wiart (4285 words)

	Adrian Carton De Wiart (1880 - 1963) - Find A Grave Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Carton de Wiart went to England to attend school and was at Balliol College, Oxford, when the Boer War broke out.
		His gallantry was inspiring to all." Carton de Wiart was involved in later fighting on the Somme, at Arras, and during the Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele).
		Carton de Wiart retired in 1947, published his autobiography “Happy Journey” in 1950 (written without notes, as they had been lost when the Germans invaded Poland in 1939), and passed away at his home in Killinardrish, County Cork, Ireland, at the age of 83.
	www.findagrave.org /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7745614&pt=Adrian%20Carton%20De%20Wiart (440 words)

	Adrian Carton de Wiart - Definition, explanation
		Adrian Carton De Wiart was born on May 5th, 1880, in Brussels to an aristocratic family and spent his early days there and in England.
		Carton de Wiart was well connected in European circles, his two closest cousins being, respectively, Henri Carton de Wiart, Prime Minister of Belgium from 1920 to 1921, and Edmond Carton de Wiart, political secretary to the King of Belgium and director of "La Societe Generale de Belgique".
		Carton De Wiart's Polish idyll was interrupted by oncoming war in July 1939 when he was summoned back to the colours and appointed to his old job, as head of the British Military Mission to Poland.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/a/ad/adrian_carton_de_wiart.php (3626 words)

	HyperWar: The Campaign in Norway [Chapter VI]
		General Carton de Wiart himself crossed the North Sea by flying boat on 15th April, but was delayed by an air raid in the Namsenfjord, in which the only staff officer accompanying him was wounded.
		General Carton de Wiart on his arrival at Namsos late on the 15th agreed to the change; the convoy had already been diverted, and he followed it to its destination in a destroyer to concert arrangements with Admiral Layton.
		General Carton de Wiart now had at his disposal more than 4,000 French troops partly accustomed to conditions of mountain and winter warfare; General Audet anticipated that his ski patrols when they had their skis—might cut the railway east to Sweden and operate as far south as Elverum.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/UN/UK/UK-NWE-Norway/UK-NWE-Norway-6.html (5419 words)

	Centre for First World War Studies
		Brigadier General Adrian Carton de Wiart (1880-1963) was known as Nelson, because of his missing left hand and fl eye patch.
		Adrian Carton de Wiart was the son of a Belgian barrister, Leon Constant Ghislain Carton de Wiart (1854-1915).
		He, himself, was intended for the law, but abandoned his studies at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1899 to serve as a trooper in the South African War.
	www.firstworldwar.bham.ac.uk /nicknames/cartondewiart.htm (255 words)

	Bosnia Report - December 1999 - February 2000: War in the Balkans
		I very much liked the shade of Loyd's famous military ancestor Adrian Carton de Wiart which can be glimpsed throughout the book, a soldier who leaves the impression of a puppet-theatre general.
		During his illustrious military career, Adrian Carton de Wiart too landed up in the Balkans, as member of some official mission; he even found himself in Tito's vicinity and greatly admired Tito's firm handclasp.
		At the end of the century, his grandson retraced his grandfather's journey as a parody.
	www.bosnia.org.uk /bosrep/decfeb00/loyd.cfm (906 words)

	12 MECHANIZED BRIGADE- History
		The Brigade has been commanded by many accomplished officers including two holders of the VC.
		The piratical, one-armed and monocular Lieutenant General Adrian Carton de Wiart VC KBE CB CMG DSO, a Dragoon, won his VC commanding the Gloucester Regiment in the Great War and was allegedly the inspiration for Brigadier Ben Richie-Hook in Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour trilogy.
		Major General Daniel Beak VC DSO MC and Bar originally enlisted in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, winning his VC in the Royal Naval Division in 1918, later transferring to the Army and rising to the appointment of General Officer Commanding Malta.
	www.army.mod.uk /12brigade/history.htm (453 words)

	Magdeburg Sting 1936 - Part VI
		Britain's Prime Minister, David Lloyd George was a Soviet sympathizer and authorized British sales of large quantities of armaments (including modern tanks) to fill urgent Soviet orders, at the same time blocking any British moves to aid Poland.
		The Polish cause in the United Kingdom was supported only by the head of the British military mission to Warsaw, General Sir Adrian Carton De Wiart and a few politicians led by the Secretary of State for War, Winston Churchill, who advocated moving Royal Air Force units to support Poland.
		On August 6, 1920, the British Labour Party published a pamphlet stating that British workers would never take part in the war as Poland's allies.
	www.minelinks.com /war/meeting.html (1762 words)

	Adrian Carton De Wiart
		Carton de Wiart's serious wound in the Boer War instilled in him a mania for physical fitness and he ran, walked and played sports at every opportunity, especially if the sport involved depleting the local fish, bird and fauna stocks.
		Carton de Wiart was well connected in European circles, his two closest cousins of the same surname being, respectively, Henri, Prime Minister of Belgium from 1920 to 1921, and Edmond, political secretary to the King of Belgium and director of "La Societe Generale de Belgique".
		Carton De Wiart's Polish idyll was interupted by oncoming war in July 1939 when he was summoned back to the colours and appointed to his old job, as head of the British Military Mission to Poland.
	www.keywordmage.net /ad/adrian-carton-de-wiart.html (3509 words)

	Henri Carton de Wiart . Enpsychlopedia
		Henri Carton de Wiart (January 31, 1869 - May 6 1951) was Prime Minister of Belgium from November 20, 1920 to May 6, 1921.
		Born in Brussels, Carton De Wiart studied law and became a lawyer.
		Carton de Wiart was a cousin of the famous British general, Sir Adrian Carton De Wiart.He lived to age 82.
	www.enpsychlopedia.com /psypsych/Henri_Carton_de_Wiart (220 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Namsos in April 1940
		De Wiart was a competent commander who inspired his troops by his bravery during air attacks.
		Carton De Wiart asked for permission to withdraw, and was told to hold his ground.
		When it became apparent that the attack on Trondheim was off, it was decided to evacuate the Allied force.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Namsos_in_April_1940 (2341 words)

	BOMBINGEN AV NAMSOS I APRIL 1940 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Fanny Wiik (Fashing) var hushjelp for de Wiart.
		De Wiart var dessuten skeptisk til den norske militære ledelsen.
		Dessuten mente han at det måtte være spioner blant de norske avdelingene.
	www.pedagogtreff.com /gdok/obus/Namsosbombing/namsside16.htm (283 words)

	17 April 1940
		Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, a stiff-backed veteran who had left Oxford to enlist in the army during the Boer War.
		Carton de Wiart had arrived at Namsos by flying boat, intending to prepare the way for his troops.
		The 15 mile fjord leading to the tiny port of Namsos proved too winding and narrow for bulky troop transports to navigate; the ships would be easy targets for the Luftwaffe.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1940/04/17.htm (895 words)

	Anthony Loyd
		Unlike Loyd, the great-grandfather was able to keep excitement in his life while not in battle (Second Boer War, World War I, Polish-Soviet War, Polish-Ukrainian War, World War II) with a strenuous life of hunting, fishing, polo, fox hunting and pig sticking.
		Loyd refers to Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart as his grandfather in several articles, whereas Carton de Wiart is actually his maternal great-grandfather.
		The ancestry of Anthony Loyd vis-a-vis Adrian Carton de Wiart was also discussed on that group.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Anthony_Loyd (524 words)

	Mohammed bin Abdullah - (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hastings Ismay, later Lord Ismay and Winston Churchill's military advisor during World War II, was a staff officer during the campaign.
		Adrian Carton De Wiart lost an eye storming a rebel fort.
		The dervishes were severely handled during the campaign, but the need for troops in other theatres of the war caused a withdrawal and Mullah bin Abdullah's forces regained control of most of the colony.
	www.rajputana.com /mediawiki/index.php/Mohammed_bin_Abdullah (456 words)

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	Carton de wiart (Site not responding. Last check: )
		MME Carton de Wiart a Ã©tÃ© arrÃªtÃ©e hier, sur l'ordre du gÃ©nÃ©ral von Bissing,...
		of the hostilities, M. Henry Carton de Wiart, the Belgian Minister of Justice,...
		His compatriot on the board was leading magistrate Maitre Carton de Wiart.
	carton.fihit.com /index.php?kid=carton-de-wiart (182 words)

	Take a BrainSip
		While in Chechnya during the war against the Russians, surely one of the most dangerous places in the world, he was held a captive for a time by Moslem guerillas.
		De Wiart frankly admitted liking war and was one of the bravest men of his generation.
		Though Loyd was born three years after his grandfather's death in 1963, the fact that he had a poor relationship with his father may well have made him model his Life after De Wiart.
	anthony-loyd.brainsip.com (452 words)

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