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		tolien on Aug 14, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My grandfather at Dunkirk I suspect he’d be like Adrian Carton de Wiart VC ([1]; wounded 9 times during WW1, lost an eye, hand, part of an ear but “Frankly, I had enjoyed the war…” and was involved in the WW2 Norwegian campaign on his 60th birthday) and make no comment whatsoever other than how it was a great adventure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Carton_de_Wiart

corford on Aug 14, 2017 [–]

Not sure. According to Jack Churchill's wikipedia page (worth reading - the long bow is only the half of it), he wrote a book about his exploits.

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