Glenn Ford. One of the fastest guns in Hollywood also had quite a collection…
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Wow, now that is a very impressive collection. So many of the actors from "the golden age" of motion pictures were pipers. Ford really was a fast draw with a revolver.
Yet more info here, and well worth the reading. The mad old chap is stranger than fiction:
Adrian Carton de Wiart - Wikipedia
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Holy smokes! De Wiart was injured so many times he must have been the inspiration for The Black Knight in Monty Python’s Holy Grail!Yet more info here, and well worth the reading. The mad old chap is stranger than fiction:
Adrian Carton de Wiart - Wikipedia
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He wrote an autobiography, Happy Odyssey (which I haven't read yet), and Churchill wrote the introduction:Yet more info here, and well worth the reading. The mad old chap is stranger than fiction:
Adrian Carton de Wiart - Wikipedia
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I've read it, and it's quite good, in a "We marched so many furlongs and made camp in a wadi" sort of upper-crust English way. (Though he was actually Belgian in descent.) It used to be on Kindle Unlimited, but it isn't presently.
Happy Odyssey on Amazon
Happy Odyssey on Amazon
I noted that. I now have to get a copy.He wrote an autobiography, Happy Odyssey (which I haven't read yet), and Churchill wrote the introduction:
Right?! Crowley was a lot of things, not many them good. But he was an avid mountaineer, which I presume explains the awesome coat!
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Did he drink Dos Equis?
