By the end of the war, the indefatigable surgeon had carried out 11,572 major facial operations.
When the First World War began, Indefatigable was serving with the 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron (BCS) in the Mediterranean, where she unsuccessfully pursued the battlecruiser and the light cruiser of the German Imperial Navy as they fled towards the Ottoman Empire.
He was such an indefatigable storyteller -- his World War II stories and the adventures of his dog, Moot -- that when I was 10 or so, as if to be worthy of his esteem, I fell into the vice of telling serial tall tales about myself, which Uncle Mattie and my father listened to as if they were true.
If the late James Lees-Milne, diarist, pioneering country house secretary for the National Trust and indefatigable admirer of the pre-war leisured classes, ever directed a film, it would look like Gosford Park.
One collection that had a particularly strong effect on me was Solmaz Sharif's début, "Look," an indefatigable meditation on the language of war.
Don Quixote himself might have despaired at the prospect of leading America's Communist Party during the cold war, but not the indefatigable Gus Hall.
As for Lord Coe and those people actually engaged in delivering the Olympics, the sad fact of 21st-century life is that the word terrorism looms just as large as traffic, and in The Secret War on Terror the indefatigable Peter Taylor asked whether the world has been made safer by the West's efforts to suppress al-Qa'ida.
My host at the Migrants Resource Centre (MRC) is the indefatigable Nazek Ramadan, who herself fled the war in Lebanon in the mid-Eighties and runs many of the projects at the centre.
Manolis Glezos, the new European parliament's oldest deputy, is a 92-year-old second world war hero, leftwing icon, inveterate writer and indefatigable activist.
HMS Indefatigable was an built for the Royal Navy RNN) during World War II.
