Major General ORDE CHARLES WINGATE
Regiment & Unit/Ship
General Staff
Cmdr. Special Forces India Command
Date of Death
Died 24 March 1944
Age 41 years old
Buried or commemorated at
Sec. 12. Coll. grave 288.
United States of America
- Secondary Unit, Regiment and Royal Artillery
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Awards Distinguished Service Order and 2 Bars, Twice Mentioned in Despatches
- Additional Info Son of Colonel George Wingate C.I.E. and Mary Ethel Stanley Wingate (nee Orde Browne); husband of Lorna E. M. Wingate (nee Moncrieff Paterson), of Edinburgh, Scotland. Commanded a special force known as the "Chindits". Awarded the Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Medal by the Royal Central Asian Society, 1943.
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