Moustache Monday: Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart

One of the more incredible figures of British military history, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is quoted as having described him thusly, “With his black eyepatch and empty sleeve, Carton De Wiart looked like an elegant pirate, and became a figure of legend.” He was wounded eight times while serving during World War I, one injury taking his left eye and another taking his left arm. He retired at age 66 and died in 1963 at the age of 83. He is pictured here, with his bristly, defiant moustache in what could almost be described as a military mugshot, in 1944.

Adrian Carton de Wiart [Wikipedia] : vintagephoto