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    Major General Orde Charles Wingate, DSO & Two Bars (26 February 1903 – 24 March 1944) was a senior British Army officer known for his creation of the Chindit...
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    Chindits (redirect from Wingate's Circus)
    action in 1943–1944 during the Burma Campaign of World War II. Brigadier Orde Wingate formed them for long-range penetration operations against the Imperial...
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    Wingate Institute (Hebrew: מכון וינגייט), officially Orde Wingate Institute for Physical Education and Sports (Hebrew: המכון לחינוך גופני ולספורט ע"ש...
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    British Army. Wingate married Catherine Rundle (later Dame Catherine Wingate) on 18 June 1888. He was the first cousin once removed to Orde Wingate, who led...
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  • Rachel Orde Wingate (c. 1901-11 June 1953) was an English linguist and missionary to Xinjiang (Western China). She served with the Swedish Missionary Society...
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    of Mandatory Palestine. He served in the Special Night Squads under Orde Wingate during the Arab revolt in Palestine and later lost an eye to a sniper...
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    Force / 3rd Indian Infantry Division, on the death of Major General Orde Wingate in an air crash. Commanded the Chindits until they were disbanded early...
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    British–Jewish counter-insurgency military unit, established by Captain Orde Wingate in Mandatory Palestine in 1938 during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt. The...
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  • African-American writer and editor Orde Kittrie, American professor of law Orde Wingate (1903–1944), unconventional British Army officer Orde (surname) Orda (organization)...
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    operations and was instrumental in popularizing the unorthodox ideas of Orde Wingate. He frequently led attacks from the front, a practice that earned him...
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    (1974) – Kaiser William II The Last Word (1975) – Edward Orde Wingate (1976) – Orde Wingate Sweeney! (1977) – Elliott McQueen The Three Hostages (1977)...
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    World War. The leader and creator of the force was Major (later Colonel) Orde Wingate. At its peak, Gideon Force had fifty officers, twenty British NCOs, 800...
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    club was named after Orde Wingate, who had been involved in training the Haganah, the precursor to the Israeli Defense Forces. Wingate & Finchley have an...
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  • British television director who is best remembered for the award-winning Orde Wingate and Rock Follies, a BBC adaptation of the Ivan Turgenev play A Month...
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    British struggled to balance sympathies for Jews and Arabs. Some, such as Orde Wingate, fought alongside the Haganah as part of the Special Night Squads....
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    Episode: "Target North" 1976 Survivors Lenny Carter Episode: "The Chosen" Orde Wingate Brigadier Calvert 3 episodes 1977 George & Mildred Keith Episode: "The...
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    The new U.S. force was directly inspired by, and partially modeled on Orde Wingate's Chindits Long Range Penetration Force. A call for volunteers attracted...
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  • Jewish club with the aim of fighting antisemitism. It was named after Orde Wingate, who had been involved in training the Haganah, the precursor to the...
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  • was part of the Chindits, an Indian Army guerilla warfare force led by Orde Wingate who used unorthodox tactics against the Japanese in Burma in World War...
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  • Sin Father Bernard Cutler 1976 Man About the House Norman Tripp 1976 Orde Wingate Cpl. Thomas 1976–1980 George and Mildred Jeffrey Fourmile 1976 The Sweeney...
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  • later married Orde Wingate. Wingate rose to a Major General who created the unconventional fighting force known as "The Chindits". Orde Wingate was an outstanding...
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  • British (his maternal grandfather was the local vicar, a relation of Orde Wingate). Shaw grew up in Leeds and later studied at King's College London where...
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  • English Patient is based. In January 1933, the British military officer Orde Wingate searched unsuccessfully for the Lost Army's remains in what was then...
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    recognised an original, unorthodox outlook on soldiering ... One was Orde Wingate, the second was Dudley Clarke. — Wavell At the outbreak of the Second...
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  • as Mr. Macy David de Keyser as David Ben-Gurion Barry Foster as Major Orde Wingate Nigel Hawthorne as King Abdullah Yossi Graber as Moshe Dayan Oded Teomi...
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    The second action was controversial. Under the command of Brigadier Orde Wingate, a long-range penetration unit known as the Chindits infiltrated through...
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    the Palmach. 1939 was a turning point for the Jewish Defence forces. Orde Wingate was transferred out of Palestine and the Fosh was replaced by a less...
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    brigade served behind the Japanese lines in Burma. On the death of General Orde Wingate on 24 April, Lentaigne became the Chindit commander and Masters commanded...
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  • 1940 – Édouard Branly, French physicist and academic (b. 1844) 1944 – Orde Wingate, Indian-English general (b. 1903) 1946 – Alexander Alekhine, Russian...
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  • (1974–1977) as Mr Fletcher Sadie, It's Cold Outside (1975) as Norman Potter Orde Wingate (1976) as Palmer I, Claudius (1976) as Pallas Secret Army (1977–1979)...
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