BRITISH VETERAN
GENERAL IN POLAND LONDON, Oct. 13. Among the generals who escaped from Poland before the Russian and German forces completed their mop-ping-up campaign was a British general, with his left sleeve empty and a patch over one eye, and with the Victoria Cress pinned to his breast. He was Major-General Carton de Wiart. aged 59, who has now returned home from his filth campaign. He lost an eye and an arm in the Great War. It is now revealed that he was the leader of a British military mission with Ihe Polish Army, the, presence of which had been kept secret. Major-General de Wiart went to Poland shortly after the Great War, chiefly because lie lilted duck shooting, and became one of Pilsudski’s most trusted foreign advisers.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20072, 19 October 1939, Page 16
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