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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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    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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    World War II and the early days of the State of Israel. He trained under Orde Wingate and served alongside Moshe Dayan. He was one of the founders of the Israeli...
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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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    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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    (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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    was sent to India. He flew British troops, the Chindits, under General Orde Wingate, on March 5, 1944, landing them at night in a small jungle clearing 100...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • (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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    its own initiative. Christian Zionists like John Henry Patterson and Orde Wingate played crucial roles in the initiation and development of the Haganah...
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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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  • biographies of General George Marshall, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, Orde Wingate, Walt Disney, Charles Lindbergh, Du Pont family, Eleanor Dulles, Allen...
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    returned to Ethiopia in the company of Wavell's favourite guerrilla fighter Orde Wingate, and the news of his return sparked a fast-spreading rebellion all over...
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