CHINDITS 1944 Wingate, Orde Charles

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Wingate ​

• FORENAME

Orde Charles ​

• UNIT

GOC ​

• RANK

T/Major General ​

• NUMBER

27013 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

24th March 1944 ​

• AGE

41 ​

• GRAVESITE

Arlington National Cemetery,Virginia,U.S.A. Section 13 Coll.grave 288 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit Royal Artillery and General Staff​

born 26.2.1903 India​

resided Aberdeenshire​

son of late Colonel George,CIE and Mary Ethel Stanley (nee Orde Browne) Wingate​

husband of Lorna Elizabeth Margaret (nee Moncrieff Paterson),49 Hill Street,London​

SW1 (Tel.Grosvenor 3895) (postwar of Edinburgh)​

educated privately,Hillhouse,Charterhouse and RMA​

Royal Artillery 1923 (2Lt)​

Major 1940​

T/Lieutenant Colonel 1941​

attached Sudan Defence Force 1928-33​

Adjutant T.A. 1935-36​

Special Appointment Palestine and Trans Jordan 1936-39 (DSO,Ment.in Despatches)​

WW2 awarded 2 bars to DSO,Mention in Despatches​

awarded Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Medal from Royal Central Asian Society 1943​

spoke Hebrew and Arabic​

killed in air crash near Bishenpur,India ​

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[robbie1]

Orde Charles Wingate

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