Comments on: Hesketh-Prichard https://www.isegoria.net/2013/06/hesketh-prichard/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 21 May 2026 16:19:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Slovenian Guest https://www.isegoria.net/2013/06/hesketh-prichard/comment-page-1/#comment-902109 Slovenian Guest Sat, 13 Jul 2013 09:54:46 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=31847#comment-902109 Yet the honor of having the best opening paragraph on Wikipedia, at-least according to Boing Boing, goes to Adrian Carton de Wiart:

“Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO (5 May 1880–5 June 1963), was a British Army officer of Belgian and Irish descent. He served in the Boer War, First World War and Second World War, was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear, survived a plane crash, tunneled out of a POW camp, and bit off his own fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them. He later said, Frankly I had enjoyed the war.”

]]> By: Matthew Walker https://www.isegoria.net/2013/06/hesketh-prichard/comment-page-1/#comment-885746 Matthew Walker Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:00:06 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=31847#comment-885746 Lt Colonel John Blashford-Snell, discoverer of the Double Nosed Andean Tiger Hound and carrier of church organs to Bolivia, is pretty interesting too.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6940289.stm
http://www.johnblashfordsnell.org.uk/6.html

]]> By: LMN https://www.isegoria.net/2013/06/hesketh-prichard/comment-page-1/#comment-885707 LMN Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:26:47 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=31847#comment-885707 His book on sniping in the trenches and others are on the Internet Archive.

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