| RCS/Y3011T contains: |
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| <-- See earlier |
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| 32 |
Te Puni, Maori Chief of Wellington |
| 33 |
W.C. Wentworth |
| 34 |
W.C. Wentworth |
| 35 |
William Charles Wentworth, Woolner Medallion |
| 36 |
[Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquis of Willingdon (1866-1941)] |
| 37 |
[Major General Orde Charles Wingate (1903-1944)] |
| 38 |
[Major General James Wolfe (1727-1759)] |
| 39 |
[Portrait of an unidentified European in Arab dress] |
| 40 |
[Unidentified portrait] |
| 41 |
[George Herbert Hyde Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon (1877-1955)] |
| 42 |
[A. Seymour Brown] |
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Miscellaneous Portraits
| Title |
[Major General Orde Charles Wingate (1903-1944)] |
| Reference |
Y3011T/37
(former reference: IND 2237) |
| Creator |
Imperial War Museum |
| Extent and Medium |
Good condition. |
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| Content and context |
148 x 195 mm. Three quarter length portrait of Major General Orde Charles Wingate in bush uniform, probably taken in Burma. Wingate entered the Royal Artillery in 1923; he was attached to the Sudan Defence Force 1928-33 and served in Palestine and Trans-Jordan 1936-39. He was active behind enemy lines in Ethiopia in 1940-41 and was then selected to take charge of units to operate behind enemy lines in Burma. For this task he was promoted Temporary Brigadier General with the title of Commander of Special Force, India Command in 1943. He died in an unexplained aeroplane crash in the Naga Hills of Northern Assam. Imperial War Museum photograph. |
| Further information |
Indexed |
| Index Terms |
| Asia |
| Myanmar |
| Wingate, Orde Charles (1903-1944) |
| Imperial War Museum |
| No further on-line information. |
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