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Maj.Gen. Orde Charles Wingate DSO & 2 Bars.s
British Army Special Forces India Command
from:Edinburgh, Scotland
(d.24th March 1944)
The son of Colonel George Wingate C.I.E. and Mary Ethel Stanley Wingate (nee Orde Browne), Orde Charles Wingate was husband of Lorna E. M. Wingate (nee Moncrieff Paterson), of Edinburgh, Scotland. He commanded a special force known as the "Chindits". Awarded the Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Medal by the Royal Central Asian Society, 1943.
While on an airplane flight, Wingate's Boeing B25 Mitchell plane crashed into the Burmese jungle. He and all his party were killed in the crash on 24 March 1944 and are buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, DC.