The Man Who Couldn't be Killed: Adrian Carton de Wiart

Throughout British history, heroes have been found, created and, in some cases, adopted. Adrian Carton de Viart was a son of Belgium, shaped in England, who fell in love with Poland and fought under the British colours. Rumours had it that he was the bastard son of the King of Belgium himself. This unique and eclectic make-up ended up creating a man with an almost supernatural indifference to pain, danger, and death, combined with a delight in the thick of things that never left him even into old age. He became known as ‘the un-killable soldier’. A moniker he more than earned.

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