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Orde Wingate

1903 - 1944

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Major General Orde Charles Wingate, (26 February 1903 – 24 March 1944) was a senior British Army officer known for his creation of the Chindit deep-penetration missions in Japanese-held territory during the Burma Campaign of the Second World War. Wingate was an exponent of unconventional military thinking and the value of surprise tactics. Wingate was a dedicated Christian Zionist. In Mandatory Palestine, he set up a joint British–Jewish counter-insurgency unit called the Special Night Squads. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Orde Wingate is the 1,443rd most popular military personnel (down from 1,268th in 2019), the 472nd most popular biography from India (down from 379th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Indian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Orde Wingate ranks 1,443 out of 2,058. Before him are Paul Bader, Conrad Albrecht, Sergey Surovikin, Maurice d'Elbée, Cândido Rondon, and Marc Mitscher. After him are Meleager, I Gusti Ngurah Rai, Walter Bedell Smith, Constantine Angelos, Saitō Yoshitatsu, and Dan Shomron.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Orde Wingate ranks 177. Before him are Ferenc Nagy, Lili Kraus, Melvin Purvis, Fernando Paternoster, Joseph Cornell, and Germán Busch. After him are Cyril Jackson, Diana Vreeland, Siegfried Kasche, Gaito Gazdanov, Márton Bukovi, and Nikolay Cherkasov. Among people deceased in 1944, Orde Wingate ranks 203. Before him are Leonid Mandelstam, Edith Durham, Peter Struve, Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, Luigi Maglione, and Edwin Lutyens. After him are Nikolai Kuznetsov, Erich Salomon, Adam von Trott zu Solz, Inigo Campioni, Henry Wood, and Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau.

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In India

Among people born in India, Orde Wingate ranks 472 out of 1,861. Before him are Ajith Kumar (1971), Alamgir II (1699), Mehmood (1932), Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (1892), Rajesh Khanna (1942), and Skandagupta (500). After him are Baba Amte (1914), Bahubali (null), Rani Padmini (null), Shudraka (500), Balbir Singh Sr. (1923), and Lakshmi Sahgal (1914).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In India

Among military personnels born in India, Orde Wingate ranks 7. Before him are Baji Rao I (1700), Kim Philby (1912), Tatya Tope (1814), Mad Mike Hoare (1919), Kenneth Anderson (1891), and Rash Behari Bose (1886). After him are Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832), John Frost (1912), William Birdwood (1865), Padma Bandopadhyay (1944), Somnath Sharma (1923), and Sam Manekshaw (1914).

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