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De Wiart was well connected in European circles, his two closest cousins being Count Henri Carton de Wiart, Prime Minister of Belgium from 1920 to 1921, and Baron Edmond Carton de Wiart, political secretary to the King of Belgium and director of La Société Générale de Belgique.
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It consisted mostly of French officers, although it also included a few British advisers led by Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Carton De Wiart.
He became friends with Carton De Wiart, and adapted to prison life, managing the officers house-keeping and Red Cross parcels.
* Happy Odyssey, Lt-Gen. Sir Carton De Wiart, V. C., K. B. E., C. M. G., D. S. O., Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1950, in PAN paperback 1956, re-printed by Pen & Sword Books 2007 ISBN 1-84415-539-0
De Wiart was forced to fall back from these assaults, leaving Steinkjer for the Germans.
De Wiart was born into an aristocratic family in Brussels, on 5 May 1880, eldest son of Leon Constant Ghislain Carton de Wiart ( 1854 – 1915 ).
De Wiart was a Roman Catholic.
De Wiart was transferred to India in 1902.
By 1907, although De Wiart had now served in the British Army for eight years, he had remained a Belgian subject.
In his memoirs, Happy Odyssey, De Wiart makes no reference to his wife or daughters.
When the First World War broke out, De Wiart was en route to British Somaliland where a low level war was underway against the followers of Mohammed bin Abdullah, called the " Mad Mullah " by the British.
De Wiart had been seconded to the Somaliland Camel Corps.
In an attack upon an enemy fort at Shimber Berris, De Wiart was shot in the face, and consequently had to wear a black patch over his left eye socket.
De Wiart took part in the fighting on the Western Front, commanding successively three infantry battalions and a brigade.
De Wiart was promoted to temporary major in March 1916, from 15 February to 25 March.
In June, now a temporary brigadier-general, De Wiart was promoted to brevet lieutenant-colonel.
Just prior to the end of the war, on 8 November, De Wiart was given command of a brigade with the rank of temporary brigadier-general.
During World War I, De Wiart received the Victoria Cross.
At the end of the war De Wiart was sent to Second Republic of Poland as second in command of the British Military Mission under General Louis Botha.
De Wiart was appointed a CB in the 1919 King's Birthday Honours List.
From all these affairs, De Wiart developed a sympathy with the Poles and supported their claims to the eastern Galicia.
In July 1920, De Wiart was appointed an ADC to the King, and promoted to brevet colonel.
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At the moment he was excited about his son's having received the Prix De Rome in archaeology and was looking forward to being present this summer at the excavation of an Etruscan tomb.
In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.
The result was the `` Gross Report '', prepared by Gross, as chairman, with the assistance of two U.N. Under Secretaries, Constantin Stavropoulos and Philippe De Seynes.
Though Catherine was vexed at the number of French officers streaming to the Turkish standard, there were several under her own, such as the Prince De Nassau ; ;
Boniface was later to explain to the English that Robert of Burgundy and Guy De St.-Pol were easy enough to do business with ; ;
Of Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe the philosopher Whitehead said the Earth's first visitors to Mars should be persons likely to make a good impression, and when he was asked, `` Whom would you send ''??
Monsieur De Cury was incensed, of course.
Alex's instruction was rapid, for the doctor had to go off to the Rue Ecole De Medecine to hear more speeches with only time for one sip of wine to sustain him through them all.
Ballet flowered in Italy during the next hundred years, and about 1550 was carried to France when the Italian princess, Catherine De Medicis, married the King of France.
The most famous ballet of that time was called Ballet Comique De La Reine ( 1581 ).
Oersted remodeled Ritter's notes into an essay in French which was submitted to the Institut De France for its annual prize of 3,000 francs.
A Bureau De La Demographie ( A. Romaniuk, Director ) was formed under AIMO in the Congo, to work in close rapport with the Section Statistique of the Secretariat General.
A member of the IRSAC staff ( E. Van De Walle ) was recently delegated to cooperate with AIMO in the development of demographic statistics in this territory.
Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer was the regiment's first permanent commander and, like such generals as George S. Patton and Terry De La Mesa Allen in their rise to military prominence, Custer was a believer in blood and guts warfare.
De La Laude, commander of the Alabama post, had the friendship of the natives, and was able to make them look upon the British as poor competitors.
Diario De La Marina was the oldest and most influential paper in Cuba, with a reputation for speaking out against tyranny.
A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.
the twelfth Marquis De Portago was intelligent, purposeful, and passionate.
The working principle of a yupana is unknown, but in 2001 an explanation of the mathematical basis of these instruments was proposed by Italian mathematician Nicolino De Pasquale.
It was won by Georges Bouton of the De Dion-Bouton Company, in a car he had constructed with Albert, the Comte de Dion, but as he was the only competitor to show up it is rather difficult to call it a race.
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