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* 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 ".
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Major and Orde
Major Orde Wingate, later to gain fame in Burma with the Chindits was a major mover behind the Ethiopian " patriots " as they were referred to by the British.
Under the command of Major General Orde Wingate, the Chindits in 1944 penetrated deep behind enemy lines in an attempt to gain intelligence, break communications and cause confusion.
During the early part of 1944, the Army also had loose operational control over the American and Chinese Northern Combat Area Command, and the Chindits operating behind enemy lines under Major General Orde Wingate.
The leader and creator of the force was Major Orde Wingate.
Part of the increased support saw the posting in early November of Major Orde Wingate ( who had spent five inter-war years with the Sudan Defence Force and was later to gain fame in Burma with the Chindits ) to Khartoum as a staff officer with the brief of liaising between Platt, Mission 101 and the Emperor.
Major George Arthur married Eliza Orde Ussher, daughter of Lieut .- Gen. Sir John Sigismund
As part of the new concept of Long Range Penetration ( LRP ), Gurkha troops of the Indian Army were trained in the present state of Madhya Pradesh under their commander then krishnasamy ( later Major General ) Orde Charles Wingate.
On 24 March 1944 succeeded to command of Special Force / 3rd Indian Infantry Division, on the death of Major General Orde Wingate in an air crash.
Part of the increased support saw the posting in early November of Major Orde Wingate ( who had spent five inter-war years with the Sudan Defence Force and was later to gain fame in Burma with the Chindits ) to Khartoum as a staff officer with the brief of liaising between Platt, Mission 101 and the Emperor.
Emperor Selassie and Gideon Force under Major Orde Wingate conducted a campaign for the next three months in the Ethiopian province of Gojjam where they initially faced opposing forces of about 25, 000 men.
Early in March, the 23rd Long Range Penetration Brigade was removed from Major General Orde Wingate's Chindit force, and was dispatched by rail from around Lalaghat to Jorhat, north of Dimapur, where they could threaten the flank of any Japanese attack on the base.
It was commanded at this engagement and during the subsequent retreat into India by Lieutenant Colonel " Joe " Lentaigne, who later succeeded Major General Orde Wingate in charge of the Chindits.
Major and Wingate
* Doone, Arthur ( Major )-A big, burly senior and a strong supporter of Wingate.
* " Judgement on Major General O C Wingate, DSO ", written on behalf of the Chindits Old Comrades Association in collaboration with Brigadier P. W. Mead ( Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives )
It was named for Major Benjamin Wingate, 5th U. S. Infantry, who received wounds to his legs during the Battle of Valverde.
* 1861 Major Canby, Commander at Ft Wingate submitted a list with Navajo chiefs and Manuelito was listed as 5th.
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Major and 1903
She refused each proposal, and in 1903, to his horror, married the Irish nationalist Major John MacBride.
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* Sir Hector MacDonald, ( d. 1903 ), Major General and distinguished Victorian soldier
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After having turned down at least four marriage proposals from Yeats between 1891 and 1901, Maud married Major John MacBride in Paris in 1903.
Major Reginald Dyer at the Delhi_Durbar # Durbar_of_1903 | Delhi Durbar of 1903
In August 1903 he was promoted to Major, and served with the Landi Kotal Expedition ( 1908 ).
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* Equestrian statue of Major General Joseph Hooker, Massachusetts Statehouse, Boston, Massachusetts ( 1903 ).
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Charles James " Chick " Hafey ( February 12, 1903, Berkeley, California – July 2, 1973, Calistoga, California ) was an American player in Major League Baseball.
Edward James Delahanty ( October 30, 1867 – July 2, 1903 ), nicknamed " Big Ed ", was a Major League Baseball player from 1888 to 1903 for the Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland Infants and Washington Senators, and was known as one of the game's early power hitters.
On August 6, 1903, Major General Leonard Wood assumed his position as the governor of Moro Province and commander of the Department of Mindanao-Jolo.
* Six consecutive AL strikeout titles ( 1902 – 07 ), and five consecutive strikeout titles ( 1903 – 07 ) in the entire Major Leagues.
Paul Glee Waner ( April 16, 1903 – August 29, 1965 ), nicknamed " Big Poison ", was a German-American Major League Baseball right fielder.
In 1903 it accepted parity with the American League and the formation of the organization that would become Major League Baseball.
He played Major League Baseball for the Boston Beaneaters ( 1890 – 1901 ), Chicago Cubs ( 1902 – 1903 ), Pittsburgh Pirates ( 1904 ), and Detroit Tigers ( 1904 – 1907 ).
They would be amalgamated on 22 August 1944 under the command of Major Alex Logie, son of Major General WA Logie who had been first Commanding Officer of the Argylls in 1903.
* Major, December 27, 1903
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