Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart, VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO once falsified his name and age, signing up as "Trooper Carton" in Paget's Horse and claiming to be 25 years old when his actual age was barely 20... or was that 18
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the professor/general of the American Civil war, led his regiments and brigades from the front, as was military custom at that time.
He was wounded six times, but survived the war by almost 50 years (to 1914), despite a painful bladder wound that never properly healed.
