Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart NPG 4651

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir William Orpen

Lieutenant-general and war hero. Carton de Wiart who was half-Belgian, half-Irish joined the British Army in 1899 and served in the Boer War, First World War, and Second World War. During these conflicts he was wounded eight times and lost his left eye and left hand. It was while commanding the 8th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment that Carton de Wiart earned his Victoria Cross for 'most conspicuous bravery, coolness and determination during severe operations of a prolonged nature' at La Boiselle, France in July 1916. During... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.