While Wingate was still in Burma, Gen. Wavell had ordered the formation of 111 Brigade along the lines of the 77 Brigade Chindits, selecting Brigadier Joe Lentaigne as the new commander.

The plan included the formation of a small regular force under Wingate to act as a spearhead for military operations in Gojjam.

His plan was approved by Wavell ( in the face of Platt's lack of enthusiasm ) and Wingate created his formation from one battalion of Sudanese of the British Sudan Defence Force and one battalion of Ethiopian soldiers of the 2nd Ethiopian Battalion, mostly composed of soldiers that had served in the Ethiopian army.

The plan included the formation of a small regular force under Wingate to act as a spearhead for military operations in Gojjam.

* Wingate Sandstone, a geologic formation across the Colorado Plateau

* South East Asian Theatre: Wingate, Chindits, Force 136, V Force

Consequent to this, Leo Amery, the Secretary of State for India contacted Wavell, now Commander-in-Chief in India commanding the South-East Asian Theatre to enquire if there were any chance of employing Wingate in the Far East.

He attempted to join the Chindits, and jumped into a taxicab in Cairo to bring the matter up with Orde Wingate, but his duties and rank precluded the assignment.

In 1871, Civil War veterans led by Army and Navy Journal editor William Conant Church organized the NRA in New York, with General Burnside as President and George Wood Wingate as secretary.

Along with a younger brother, Wesley Coke Asbury Gause, Judge Wingate, and several others, they left Shallotte, North Carolina, on February 18, and arrived at Pearlington, Mississippi, on April 14, 1836.

Wingate on the other hand struggled to keep up with the flood of scripts coming in, to the point where Warner Brothers ' head of production Darryl Zanuck wrote him a letter imploring him to pick up the pace.

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.

The Twilight Club is an organization which was founded by Charles Wingate in the late 19th century with the intention of countering the moral decline of society by bolstering spiritual and ethical awareness.

In September 1943, Browning travelled to India where he inspected the 50th Parachute Brigade, and met with Major-General Orde Wingate, the commander of the Chindits.

* 1907, Four Corners, Arizona: Two troops of the 5th Cavalry from Fort Wingate skirmish with armed Navajo men.

In a meeting with Catlett and his sidekick Ronnie Wingate, Zimm and Palmer tell them that, while their investment in Freaks is sound, they are making another movie first.

As a result Wingate successfully applied to take a course in Arabic at the School of Oriental Studies in London and passed out of the course, which lasted from October 1926 to March 1927, with a mark of 85 / 100.

In June 1927, with Cousin Rex's encouragement, Wingate obtained six-months ' leave in order to mount an expedition in the Sudan.

In March 1930, Wingate was given command of a company of 300 soldiers with the local rank of bimbashi ( major ).

Wingate became politically involved with a number of Zionist leaders, and became an ardent Zionist, despite not being Jewish.

At the end of the fighting, Wingate and the men of the Gideon Force linked with the force of Lt. Gen. Alan Cunningham which had advanced from Kenya to the south and accompanied the emperor in his triumphant return to Addis Ababa in May.

Already depressed over the official response to his Abyssinian command, and sick with malaria, Wingate attempted suicide by stabbing himself in the neck.

On 27 February 1942, Wingate, far from pleased with his posting as a " supernumary major without staff grading ", left Britain for Rangoon.

Wingate set out from Imphal on 12 February 1943, with the Chindits organised into eight separate columns to cross the Chindwin river.

Wingate and his senior commanders considered a number of options to achieve this but all were threatened by the fact that with no major army offensive in progress, the Japanese would be able to focus their attention on destroying the Chindit force.

After his meeting with Allied leaders, Wingate contracted typhoid by drinking bad water on his way back to India.

" Likewise, referring to Churchill's meeting with Wingate in Quebec, Max Hastings wrote that, " Wingate proved a short-lived protegé: closer acquaintance caused Churchill to realise that he was too mad for high command.

Finished with the war and knowing that the Allied Powers were close to winning in the Pacific, Wingate decided to lay low and live out the rest of his life peacefully in the valley, and so faked the plane crash leading to his apparent demise.

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.

Capp moved to Boston and married Catherine Wingate Cameron, whom he had met earlier in art class.

Hussein learned of the agreement when it was leaked by the new Russian government in December 1917, but was satisfied by two disingenuous telegrams from Sir Reginald Wingate, High Commissioner of Egypt, assuring him that the British government's commitments to the Arabs were still valid and that the Sykes-Picot Agreement was not a formal treaty.

* 1903 – Orde Charles Wingate, British Major-General, prominent Zionist, eccentric ( d. 1944 )

From top to bottom: Rounded tan domes of the Navajo Sandstone, layered red Kayenta Formation, cliff-forming, vertically jointed, red Wingate Sandstone, slope-forming, purplish Chinle Formation, layered, lighter-red Moenkopi Formation, and white, layered Cutler Formation sandstone.

* 1944 – Orde Charles Wingate, British Major-General, prominent Zionist, eccentric ( b. 1903 )

For similar reasons, concerned over poor marksmanship during the American Civil War, veteran Union officers Col. William C. Church and Gen. George Wingate formed the National Rifle Association of America in 1871 for the purpose of promoting and encouraging rifle shooting on a " scientific " basis.

Image: John Wingate Weeks, Bain bw photo portrait. jpg | Senator John W. Weeks of Massachusetts

From top to bottom: Rounded tan domes of the Navajo Sandstone, layered red Kayenta Formation, cliff-forming, vertically jointed, red Wingate Sandstone, slope-forming, purplish Chinle Formation, layered, lighter-red Moenkopi Formation, and white, layered Cutler Formation sandstone.

These have included Count László Almásy ( on whom the novel The English Patient was based ), Orde Wingate and modern geologist Tom Brown.

In January 1933, Orde Wingate searched unsuccessfully for the Lost Army of Cambyses in Egypt's Western Desert, then known as the Libyan Desert.

After sightings of the bird at sea, a young Bermudian, David B. Wingate, theorised Cahows might still be nesting on rocky islets of Castle Harbour.

Wingate traveled to Europe and observed European armies ' marksmanship training programs.

With plans provided by Wingate, the New York legislature funded the construction of a modern range at Creedmore, Long Island, for long-range shooting competitions.

Wingate then wrote a marksmanship manual.

Held at the Wingate Institute, Yom Sayarot is a day where prospective recruits undergo a series of physical and mental tests to evaluate their aptitude for service in several units.

One of his military heroes was the British pro-Zionist officer Orde Wingate, under whom he served in several Special Night Squads operations.

( between 1975 and 1992 called " Leyton Wingate ") was founded in 1868, are in the Isthmian League Premier Division, and play at the Leyton Stadium in Lea Bridge Road.