Orde Charles Wingate
February 26, 1903 – March 24, 1944
Orde Charles Wingate
Place of birth	Naini Tal, India
Place of death	Burma
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1921 – 1944
Rank	Major General
Commands	Gideon Force Chindits
Battles/wars	World War II East African Campaign Burma Campaign
Awards	DSO

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Beginnings

Orde Wingate was born 26 February 1903 in Naini Tal, India to a military family. Because his mother came from a missionary family affiliated with the Plymouth Brethren, he received a very religious education and was introduced to Christian Zionist ideas at a very young age. Nainital is a town in the Indian state of Uttaranchal and headquarters of Nainital District in the Kumaon foothills of the outer Himalaya. ... For other uses, see Missionary (disambiguation). ... The Brethren are a Christian Evangelical movement that began in Dublin, London, Plymouth, and the continent of Europe in the late 1820s. ... This article is about Zionism as a movement, not the History of Israel. ...

In 1921 Wingate was accepted into the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich and received his gunnery officer's commission in 1923. He also began to learn Arabic and eventually got himself an assignment to Sudan through an uncle, Sir Reginald Wingate, Governor General of Sudan. The Royal Military Academy was founded in 1741 in Woolwich, south-east London. ... , Woolwich town hall dates from when this was a borough in its own right. ... In military organizations, a commissioned officer is a member of the service who derives authority directly from a sovereign power, and as such holds a commission from that power. ... Arabic redirects here. ... Sir Reginald Wingate (Francis) (1861 - 1953) was a British general. ...

When Wingate arrived in Sudan to join the Sudan Defence Forces in 1928, he was assigned to patrol the Abyssinian border where he was to catch slave traders and ivory poachers. He changed the method of regular patrolling to ambushes. At the end of his tour, he led a short expedition to search for Zerzura, but did not find it. His tour ended in 1933. In 1935 he married Lorna Moncrieff Paterson who was sixteen years old at the time. The Sudan Defence Force (SDF) was a Sudanese military unit formed in 1925 during the time of the Anglo-Egyptian co-dominium. ... This article needs cleanup. ... Slave redirects here. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... For other uses, see Poaching (disambiguation). ... An ambush is a long established military tactic in which an ambushing force uses concealment to attack an enemy that passes its position. ... A mythical city or oasis which was long rumored to have existed deep in the desert west of the Nile River in Egypt or Libya. ...

Palestine and the Special Night Squads

In 1936 Wingate was assigned to the British Mandate of Palestine to a staff office position and became an intelligence officer. From his arrival, he saw the creation of a Jewish State in Palestine as being a religious duty toward the literal fulfillment of Christian prophecy and he immediately put himself into absolute alliance with Jewish political leaders. Flag The approximate borders of the British Mandate circa 1922. ... An intelligence officer is a person employed by an organisation to collect, compile and analyse information (known as intelligence) which is of use to that organisation. ... The book Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State, 1896) by Theodor Herzl. ...

Arab guerrillas had at the time of his arrival begun a campaign of attacks against both British mandate officials and Jewish communities, which became known as the Arab Revolt. For other uses, see Arab (disambiguation). ... Flag The approximate borders of the British Mandate circa 1922. ... For other uses, see Jew (disambiguation). ... The 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine was an uprising during the British mandate by Palestinian Arabs in Palestine which lasted from 1936 to 1939. ...

Wingate became politically involved with a number of Zionist leaders. He formulated an idea of armed groups of British led Jewish commandos, and took his idea personally to Archibald Wavell, who was then a commander of British forces in Palestine. After Wavell gave his permission, Wingate convinced the Zionist Jewish Agency and the leadership of Haganah, the Jewish armed group. This article is about Zionism as a movement, not the History of Israel. ... Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (May 5, 1883 _ May 24, 1950) was a British General and the commander of British Army forces in the Middle East during World War II. He led British forces to victory over the Italians, only to be defeated by the German army. ... The Jewish Agency for Israel also known as The Jewish Agency (or sochnut in Hebrew), was previously called the Jewish Agency for Palestine (during the British Mandate of Palestine) is an Israeli organisation that advocates for Israel and is composed mainly, but not entirely, of Jewish people. ... The Haganah (Hebrew: Defense, ×”×’× ×”) was a Zionist para-military organization in Palestine during the British mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948. ...

In June 1938 the new British commander, General Haining, gave his permission to create the Special Night Squads, armed groups formed of British and Haganah volunteers. This is the first instance of the British recognising Haganah's legitimacy as a Jewish defence force.^[1] The Jewish Agency helped pay salaries and other costs of the Haganah personnel. Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Special Night Squads (SNS) were a joint British-Jewish force consisting of British soldiers and Jewish Settlement Police, established by Charles Orde Wingate in the British Mandate of Palestine in 1936, during the Great Arab Revolt. ...

Wingate trained, commanded and accompanied them in their patrols. They ambushed Arab saboteurs who attacked oil pipelines of the Iraq Petroleum Company and raided border villages the attackers had used as bases, imposing severe collective punishments that were sometimes frowned on by Zionist leaders as well as British. His methods were nonetheless effective. The Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC), until 1929 called Turkish Petroleum Company (TPC), was an oil company jointly owned by by some of the worlds largest oil companies, which had virtual monopoly on all oil exploration in Iraq from 1925 to 1961. ... Collective punishment is the punishment of a group of people as a result of the behavior of one or more other individuals or groups. ...

However, his deepening direct political involvement with the Zionist cause and an incident where he spoke publicly in favour of formation of a Jewish state during his leave in Britain, caused his superiors in Palestine to remove him from command. He was so deeply associated with political causes in Palestine that his superiors considered him compromised as an intelligence officer in the country. He was promoting his own agenda rather than that of the army or the government.

In May 1939, he was transferred back to Britain. Wingate became a hero of the Yishuv (the Jewish Community), and was loved by leaders such as Zvi Brenner and Moshe Dayan who had trained under him, and who claimed that Wingate had "taught us everything we know." Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Yishuv is a Hebrew word meaning settlement. ... Zvi Brenner was an Israeli leader during World War II and the early days of the State of Israel. ... Moshe Dayan (‎, born 20 May 1915, died 16 October 1981) was an Israeli military leader and politician. ...

Wingate's political attitudes toward Zionism were heavily influenced by his Plymouth Brethren religious views and belief in certain eschatological doctrines. The Brethren are a Christian Evangelical movement that began in Dublin, London, Plymouth, and the continent of Europe in the late 1820s. ... Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Wycliffe Tyndale · Luther · Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Pope · Patriarch of Constantinople Christianity Portal This box:      In Christian theology, Christian eschatology is the...

Abyssinia and the Gideon Force

At the outbreak of World War II, Wingate was the commander of an anti-aircraft unit in Britain. He repeatedly made proposals to the army and government for the creation of a Jewish army in Palestine which would rule over the area and its Arab population in the name of the British. Eventually his friend Wavell, now Commander-in-Chief of Middle East Command which was based in Cairo, invited him to Sudan to begin operations against Italian occupation forces in Ethiopia. He created the Gideon Force, a guerrilla troop composed of British, Sudanese and Ethiopian soldiers. The force was named after the biblical judge Gideon, who defeated a large force with a tiny band. Wingate invited a number of veterans of the Haganah SNS to join him. With the blessing of Haile Selassie, the group began to operate in February 1941. Wingate was temporarily promoted to lieutenant colonel and put in command. He again insisted on leading from the front and accompanied his troops. The Gideon Force, with the aid of local resistance fighters, harassed Italian forts and their supply lines while the regular army took on the main forces of the Italian army. The small Gideon Force of no more than 1,700 men took the surrender of about 20,000 Italians toward the end of the campaign. At the end of the fighting, Wingate and the men of the Gideon Force linked to the Sudan Defence Force led by William Platt and together they accompanied the emperor in his triumphant return to Addis Ababa in May. Wingate was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO). Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... American troops man an anti-aircraft gun near the Algerian coastline in 1943 Anti-aircraft, or air defense, is any method of combating military aircraft from the ground. ... During World War II The British Middle East Command was based in Cairo with responsibility for the Middle East theatre which included North Africa, East Africa, Persia, the Middle East, and the British forces in the Balkans and Greece. ... For other uses, see Cairo (disambiguation). ... The Gideon Force was a British-led African guerrilla force fighting the Italian occupation forces in Abyssiania (modern-day Ethiopia) during the World War II. Leader and creator of the force was British major Charles Orde Wingate. ... Gideon (גִּדְעוֹן, Standard Hebrew GidÊ»on, Tiberian Hebrew Giḏʻôn), also known as Jerubbaal, is a character that appears in the Book of Judges, in the Bible. ... Haile Selassie Haile Selassie (Power of Trinity) (July 23, 1892 – August 27, 1975) was the last Emperor (1930–1936; 1941–1974) of Ethiopia, and is a religious symbol in the Rastafarian movement. ... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... Sir William Platt (born 1885; died 1975) was an officer in the British Army during World War I and World War II. Platt was educated at Marlborough College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst. ... For the long-distance runner, see Addis Abebe. ... DSO medal The Distinguished Service Order (DSO) is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other Commonwealth countries, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat. ...

With the end of the East African Campaign, on 4 June 1941, Wingate was removed from command of the now-dismantled Gideon Force and his rank was reduced to that of major. During the campaign he was irritated that the British authorities ignored Wingate's request for decorations for his men and obstructed his attempts to get back-pay for his force. He left for Cairo and wrote an official report which was extremely critical of his commanders, fellow officers, government officials and many others. He was angry that he went without praise for his success and without having a chance to give his regards to Selassie before he was ignominiously ordered to leave the country. Wingate was most concerned about British attempts to stifle Ethiopian freedom, writing that attempts to raise future rebellions amongst populations must be honest ones and should appeal to justice. Soon after, he contracted malaria. He sought treatment a local doctor instead of army doctors because he was afraid that the illness would give his detractors another further excuse to undermine him. This doctor gave him a large supply of the drug Atabrine, which can produce as a side-effect depression if taken in high dosages. The dementia and depression from the malaria, combined with his already depressed state of mind, helped to produce such a despondency in him that he made an unsuccessful suicide attempt by stabbing himself in the neck. Combatants United Kingdom Anglo-Egyptian Sudan British Somaliland British East Africa British India Gold Coast Nigeria N. Rhodesia S. Rhodesia Union of S. Africa Belgium Belgian Congo Free France Ethiopian irregulars Italy Italian East Africa German Motorized Company Commanders Archibald Wavell William Platt Alan Cunningham Duke of Aosta Guglielmo Nasi... is the 155th day of the year (156th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Malaria is a vector-borne infectious disease caused by protozoan parasites. ... Quinacrine (trade name: Atabrine) is a drug with a number of different medical applications. ... On the Threshold of Eternity. ...

Wingate was sent to Britain to recuperate. A highly edited version of his report was passed through Wingate's political supporters in London to Winston Churchill, who contacted Wavell, now Commander-in-Chief in India commanding the South-East Asian Theatre. Wavell had Wingate transferred to India. Churchill redirects here. ... This article is in need of attention. ... The South-East Asian Theatre of World War II was the name given to the campaigns of the Pacific War in India, Burma, Thailand, Malaya and Singapore. ...

Burma and the Chindits

Wingate departed for the Far East on February 27, 1942. He was promoted to colonel and set to Burma to organise a new guerrilla unit. After accomplishing little in Burma, he was flown out to India. The far east as a cultural block includes East Asia, Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia and South Asia. ... is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

On returning to India, he was given a brigade of troops by General Wavell from which he created a long range penetration unit he eventually named Chindits (a corrupted version of the name of a mythical Burmese lion, the Chinthe). He attempted to toughen up the men given him by having them camp in the Indian jungle during the rainy season. The result was a very high sick rate among the men. Many of the men were replaced in September 1942 by new drafts of personnel from elsewhere in the army. A Long-range penetration patrol, group, or force is a special forces military unit able to remain in and move long distances behind enemy lines far away from direct contact with friendly forces. ... The Chindits (Officially in 1942 77th Indian Infantry Brigade and in 1943 Indian 3rd Infantry Division) were a British Indian Army Special Force that served in Burma and India from 1942 until 1945 during the Burma Campaign in World War II. They were formed into long range penetration groups trained...

Meanwhile, his direct manner of dealing with fellow officers and superiors along with increasingly eccentric personal habits won him few friends among the officer corps; he would consume raw onions because he thought they were healthy and scrub himself with a rubber brush instead of bathing. But his political connections in Britain and the patronage of General Wavell protected him. For other uses, see Onion (disambiguation). ...

The original 1943 Chindit operation was supposed to be a coordinated plan with the field army. When the offensive into Burma by the rest of the army was cancelled, Wingate pleaded to Wavell to be allowed to proceed into Burma anyway. Wavell eventually gave his consent.

Wingate set out with the Chindits on 12 February 1943. The force met with initial success in putting one of the main railways in Burma out of action. But afterward, Wingate led his force deep into Burma and then over the Irrawaddy River. Once the Chindits had crossed over the river, the Japanese were able to box in the force. Wingate was eventually left with no choice but to give the order for the entire force to break up into small parties and return to India however they could. Group by group, the force returned to India by various routes during the spring of 1943, some directly and others through China. is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Irrawaddy (newer spelling Ayeyarwaddy) is a river that flows through the centre of Myanmar (formerly Burma). It is Myanmars most important commercial waterway. ...

There had been heavy losses and many in the army questioned the value of the operation, which also had the unintended effect of convincing the Japanese that certain sections of the Burma/India Frontier were not as impassable as they thought. The Japanese as a consequence started planning an offensive for 1944 into India.

However, the operation was still a success after a long string of disasters in the Far East. As publicity, it was used to prove to the army and those at home that the Japanese could be beaten and that British/Indian Troops could fight in the jungle and win. On his return, Wingate wrote an operations report, in which he again was highly critical of the army and of some of his own men. He also promoted unorthodox ideas, for example that British soldiers had become weak by having too easy an access to doctors in civilian life. The report was again passed through back-channels by Wingate's political friends in London directly to Churchill. Churchill then invited Wingate to London. Soon after Wingate arrived, Churchill decided to take him and his wife along to the Quebec Conference. There, Wingate explained his ideas of deep penetration warfare to Churchill, Roosevelt and many of the allied military leaders. Air power and radio, recent developments in warfare, would allow units to establish bases deep in enemy territory, breaching the outer defences and extend the range of conventional forces. The leaders were impressed, and larger scale deep penetration attacks were approved. Left to right: Athlone, Roosevelot, Churchill, and King The Quebec Conference (codenamed QUADRANT) was a high level military conference held during World War II between the British and United States governments. ...

Once back in India, Wingate was promoted to acting major general, given six brigades and set out to plan the next mission. He contracted typhoid by drinking bad water on his way back to India. This hindered both his training of the next batch of the Chindits, as well as the development of a plan for their use. The next mission was originally to have been an operation coordinated with offensive operations into North Burma by the rest of the army. When these operations were cancelled, Wingate decided to proceed into Burma anyway. The character of the 1944 operations were totally different to those of 1943. The new operations would establish fortified bases in Burma out of which the Chindits would conduct operations. A similar strategy was used by the French in Indochina years later at Dien Bien Phu. This is about the disease typhoid fever. ... Combatants French Union France State of Vietnam Hmong mercenaries Viet Minh Commanders Christian de Castries # Pierre Langlais # René Cogny Vo Nguyen Giap Strength As of March 13: 10,800[1] As of March 13: 48,000 combat personnel, 15,000 logistical support personnel[2] Casualties 2,293 dead, 5,195...

On 6 March 1944, new Chindits began arriving in Burma by glider and parachute to establish base areas in Japanese territory. By fortune of timing, the Japanese launched an invasion of India around the same time. The Chindit operations were able to disrupt the offensive and divert troops from the battles in India. is the 65th day of the year (66th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Death

On 24 March Wingate flew to assess the situations in three Chindit-held bases in Burma. On his way back to India, the US B-25 Mitchell plane, in which he was flying, crashed into a jungle-covered mountain, where he died alongside nine others. is the 83rd day of the year (84th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The North American B-25 Mitchell (NA-62) was an American twin-engined medium bomber manufactured by North American Aviation. ...

Eccentricities

Wingate was known for various eccentricities. For instance, he often wore an alarm clock around his wrist, which would go off at times, and a raw onion on a string around his neck, which he would occasionally bite into as a snack. He often went about without clothing. In Palestine, recruits were used to having him come out of the shower to give them orders, wearing nothing but a shower cap, and continuing to scrub himself with a shower brush. Lord Moran, Winston Churchill's personal physician wrote in his diaries that "[Wingate] seemed to me hardly sane --- in medical jargon a borderline case."^[2] For other uses, see Onion (disambiguation). ... Wilson, Charles McMoran, Lord Moran of Manton (1882-1977) He was the Dean of St Marys Hospital Medical School (1920-1945) He was made Baron Moran in 1943. ...

Commemoration

Orde Wingate was originally buried at the site of the air crash in the Naga Hills in 1944. In April 1947, his remains, and those of other victims of the crash, were moved to the British Military Cemetery in Imphal, India. In November 1950, all the remains were reinterred at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia in keeping with the custom of repatriating remains in mass graves to the country of origin of the majority of the soldiers. , Imphal   (Bengali: মণিপুর; Meitei Mayek: IMPAL) is the capital of the Indian state of Manipur. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ...

A memorial to Orde Wingate and the Chindits stands on the north side of the Victoria Embankment, near Ministry of Defence headquarters in London. The facade commemorates the Chindits and the four men awarded the Victoria Cross. The battalions that took part are listed on the sides, with non-infantry units mentioned by their parent formations. The rear of the monument is dedicated to Orde Wingate, and also mentions his contributions to the state of Israel.^[3] Victoria Embankment, London The Victoria Embankment, previously the Thames Embankment is a road and walkway along the north bank of the River Thames in London in the cities of Westminster and London. ... The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is the United Kingdom government department responsible for implementation of government defence policy and is the headquarters of the British Armed Forces. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... For other uses, see Victoria Cross (disambiguation). ...

To commemorate Wingate's great assistance to the Zionist cause, Israel's National Centre for Physical Education and Sport, the Wingate Institute (Machon Wingate) was named after him. A square in the Rehavia neighborhood of Jerusalem, Wingate Square (Kikar Wingate), also bears his name, as does the Yemin Orde youth village near Haifa. ^[4] A Jewish football club formed in London in 1946, Wingate F.C. was also named in his honour. For other uses, see Jerusalem (disambiguation). ... A youth village (‎, Kfar Noar) is a boarding school model first developed in pre-state Israel in the 1930s to care for groups of children and teenagers fleeing the Nazis. ... Hebrew Arabic حَيْفَا Founded in 3rd century CE Government City District Haifa Population 267,000 1,039,000 (metropolitan area) Jurisdiction 63,666 dunams (63. ... For other uses, see Jew (disambiguation). ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... The Wingate Football Club was founded in 1946 by four enthusiastic Jewish sportsmen who returned to the U.K. after the Second World War and wished to form a Jewish Football Club playing in senior amateur competition. ...

A memorial stone in his honour stands in Charlton Cemetery, London SE4, where other members of the Orde Browne family are buried.

Family

Orde Wingate's son, Orde Jonathan Wingate, joined the Honourable Artillery Company and rose through the ranks to become the regiment's Commanding Officer and later Regimental Colonel. He died in 2000 at the age of 56, and is survived by his wife and two daughters. Other members of the Wingate family live around England. Armorial bearings of the HAC, granted in 1821 The Honourable Artillery Company (HAC) is the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior[2] in the Territorial Army [3] . // The HAC can trace its history as far back as 1296, but it received a Royal Charter...

Further reading

• Orde Charles Wingate 1903-1944
• Major General Orde Wingate 1903 - 1944 Transcript of a Lecture given by Trevor Royle in Edinburgh on 17 September 2002 for "The Second World War Experience Centre".
• Orde Wingate - The Friend
• Biography of Orde Charles Wingate
• The Chindits
• Office of the US Surgeon General: Office of Medical History: Book 4, With Wingate's Chindits index
• John Bierman and Colin Smith, Fire in the Night : Wingate of Burma, Ethiopia and Zion, Random House, New York, 1999.
• Peter W. Mead Orde Wingate and the Official Historians Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Jan., 1979), pp. 55-82
• Jon Latimer, Burma: The Forgotten War, London: John Murray, 2004
• Nadav Man, "The Friend"
• Lowell Thomas, Back to Mandalay, New York: The Greystone Press, 1951
• Biyi Bandele, Burma Boy, Cape, 2007. Wingate appears as a character in this novel about the second Chindit operation.

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Footnotes

Wingate by Col Prithvi Nath VSM His Relevance to Contemporary Warfare (Sterling Publishers 1990)