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	Charles Orde Wingate
		The son of a British officer, Wingate was born in India, received a military education, and was commissioned in 1923.
		Wingate's intense support for the Zionist viewpoint, however, was controversial, and in 1939 the British succumbed to Arab pressure and transferred Wingate from Eretz Yisrael.
		Wingate was killed in an airplane crash in Burma in 1944, and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/wingate.html (475 words)

	Orde Charles Wingate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Orde Wingate was born February 23, 1903 in India to a military family.
		Wingate became a hero of the Palestinian Jewish community, and was loved by leaders such as Moshe Dayan who had trained under him, and who claimed that Wingate had "taught us everything we know." Wingate's political attitudes toward Zionism were heavily influenced by his Plymouth Brethren religious views and belief in certain Christian prophecies.
		The remains of Orde Wingate are buried in the USA, in the Arlington National Cemetery alongside the American crewmembers of the plane he perished in.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orde_Wingate (2158 words)

	Charles Orde Wingate -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In 1936 Wingate was assigned to (A British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948) Palestine to a staff office position and became an (A person secretly employed in espionage for a government) intelligence officer.
		The remains of Orde Wingate are buried in the USA, in the (Click link for more info and facts about Arlington National Cemetery) Arlington National Cemetery alongside the American crewmembers of the plane he perished in.
		Orde Wingate's son, also Orde Wingate, joined the (Click link for more info and facts about Honourable Artillery Company) Honourable Artillery Company and rose through the ranks to become the regiments CO and later Regimental Colonel.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/charles_orde_wingate.htm (1151 words)

	Zionism and Israel -Biography of Orde Charles Wingate (Charles Orde Wingate, Orde Wingate)
		Wingate was educated according to Christian religious tradition, and in 1921 was accepted to the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich.
		Unfortunately, Orde Wingate was killed along with a number of British correspondents and American crew members, when his plane took off from Broadway and crashed into a hillside near Imphal during a storm on March 24, 1944.
		However, according to a 1999 biography of Wingate, Lorna was denied permission for reasons of her own safety and instead inscribed the bible and gave it to a group of women who had been evacuated from the kibbutz.
	www.zionism-israel.com /bio/Charles_Orde_Wingate.htm (3141 words)

	Friends of Yemin Orde > Orde Wingate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Charles Orde Wingate was a British army officer who was an ardent supporter of the Jewish cause in Palestine, although he himself was not Jewish.
		Wingate was a devout Christian believer who saw in the return of the Jews a realization of the biblical prophecies.
		Wingate's highly individualistic character, disregard for the conventional rules of military behavior and his propagation of Zionism finally resulted in 1939 in his being transferred from Palestine by the British army.
	www.yeminorde.org /who.htm (189 words)

	Orde Wingate
		Wingate was recognized as a talented officer, and by 1936 he had earned the rank of captain.
		Wingate's intense support for the Zionist viewpoint, however, was controversial, and in 1939 the British succumbed to Arab pressure and transferred Wingate from Eretz Yisrael.
		Wingate was killed in an airplane crash in Burma in 1944, and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
	www.originofnations.org /books,%20papers/quotes%20etc/orde_wingate.htm (596 words)

	Add a Press Release from the JWV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Orde Wingate was an ardent Christian Zionist and a seminal figure in modern non-conventional military warfare.
		It was Orde Wingate's ambition to lead Israel's army in its fight for independence, but tragically he died before he could fulfill that dream.
		Wingate is buried in a joint grave at Arlington National Cemetery with the other members of his American and British air crew that crashed in Burma in March 1944.
	www.jwv.org /communication/jwvdetail.cfm?ID=83 (564 words)

	FORWARD : Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Wingate was high-strung yet with a steely will, flamboyant and monkishly spartan at the same time, both ferociously single-minded as a field commander and widely read enough to bore dinner guests with abstruse discussions of biblical warfare or 17th-century Dutch politics.
		Wingate felt comfortable with Palestinian Jews because he was in many ways like them, just as most of his peers, with their upper-class Oxbridge backgrounds, were more at home with the Arab aristocracy.
		Wingate's influence helped turn the Haganah, whose very name means "defense," into the offensive-minded fighting force, geared to encircling and leapfrogging movements, that the Israeli army eventually became.
	www.forward.com /issues/2000/00.03.03/arts.html (627 words)

	Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Charles Orde Wingate was born in 1903, one of seven children in a strict Protestant family.
		Though often poor, the Wingates came from distinguished Norman and Scottish stock, and among Orde’s prominent cousins were Sir Reginald Wingate, the governor of Sudan, and T.E. Lawrence, who gained fame for his exploits in Arabia during World War I. As a student, Wingate proved to be unexcep-tional, disinterested in sports and socially inept.
		Wingate was eager to dedicate his talents to this cause, and he did not have far to look.
	www.c4israel.org /articles/english/e-u-01-2-oren-ordewingate.htm (1188 words)

	Friends of Yemin Orde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Yemin Orde was founded in 1953 by the British Friends of Youth Aliyah, in order to accommodate Holocaust survivors and immigrant children during the great immigration waves of the fifties.
		Yemin Orde's success reflects the deeply sensitive approach of the Village to the needs of adolescent survivors of trauma and displacement, many of whom have been separated from their family and are far away from their native land and culture.
		Yemin Orde maintains an open door for graduates serving in the military, supports them throughout their army career and provides scholarships for those pursuing university or paraprofessional studies.
	www.yeminorde.org /village.htm (548 words)

	The Second World War Experience Centre - Major General Orde Wingate 1903 - 1944 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Now to understand why Wingate should have done such a thing, which is quite unusual I would imagine for an officer in The British Army, we have to go back to his family background, his childhood and his education, because to understand the man sometimes we have to find out what drove the boy.
		Wingate was run, but he dealt with his running in a quite different way.
		Wingate, being Wingate of course, jumped at it, because he didn't just see this as a simple command from the staff in India.
	www.war-experience.org /history/keyfigures/wingate (1841 words)

	AllRefer.com - Orde Charles Wingate (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Sent to India and raised to the rank of brigadier in 1942, Wingate trained and led a force of raiders into Japanese-held Burma (now Myanmar) for a period of seven months (1943).
		His guerrillas became known as the "Chindits" or "Wingate's raiders." He was made a major general and placed in command of a larger army, which was flown into Burma, but he was killed in an airplane accident two weeks after this operation began.
		See C. Rolo, Wingate's Raiders (1944); W. Burchett, Wingate's Phantom Army (1946); L. Mosley, Gideon Goes to War (1955); C. Sykes, Orde Wingate (1959); J. Bierman and C. Smith, Fire in the Night: Wingate of Burma, Ethiopia, and Zion (1999).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/Wingate.html (371 words)

	Orde Wingate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Major-General Orde Wingate was one of those fiery geniuses with which the British ‘establishment’ has from time to time been blessed – and cursed.
		Wingate’s superior in Palestine (1936-1939), General Sir Archibald Wavell, was one of the few army officers able to see his military genius through the fierce blaze of his eccentricities.
		When Wingate dies, aged 41, in a plane crash on March 24, 1944, he had become a popular national hero and so highly esteemed in high places that a memorial service was held three months later in London.
	www.rose.edu /faculty/mmorgan/grayswwii/orde.htm (345 words)

	Orde Wingate
		Orde Wingate, the son of an army officer, was born in Naini Tal, India, on 26th February, 1903.
		Wingate was a truly dynamic leader who combined vision and action, one of the few men in this war who was irreplaceable, who designed, raised, trained, and inspired his force, and placed it in the enemy's vitals.
		Wingate must be judged on his brave and brilliant leadership, and, particularly, on his positive new ideas on every aspect of irregular warfare.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWwingate.htm (831 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Man Who Invented the Commandos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		...Wingate recommended that junior officers commanding raiding columns sent behind the enemy lines for long periods be given full court-martial powers, including the authority to execute their own men...
		...Orde Wingate was my neighbor in Jerusalem in 937 and I938, when he and his strikingly beautiful wife Lorna came to live in the Christian Arab quarter of Talbiah...
		...Wingate was sent away from Palestine by the British commander-in-chief, one of his warmest supporters, because he was insubordinate...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V13I3P41-1.htm (3182 words)

	Wingate, Orde (1903-1944) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Charles Orde Wingate was a Christian Zionist who served in Palestine as an officer in the British Army.
		Wingate realized that the traditional tactics of the British Army would not be sufficient to halt the prolonged Arab attacks.
		Wingate's knowledge of military strategy left a lasting impression on the Hagana, and later on, the Israel Defense Forces.
	www.wzo.org.il /home/portrait/wingate.htm (270 words)

	JRULM: Special Collections Guide: Orde Wingate (Burma Campaign) Collections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Wingate trained and commanded a second, larger force which was landed by air in early 1944.
		The largest collection is that of Tulloch, whose papers relate mainly to his book Wingate in War and Peace (London, 1972), and include notes, drafts, correspondence, typescript accounts by ex-servicemen of their experiences with the Chindits, printed works on the Burma Campaign in English and Japanese, and contemporary Chindit papers.
		Mead's papers were compiled in connection with his book Orde Wingate and the Historians (Braunton, 1987), but there are also unpublished writings, and papers on research into the medical aspects of the Chindit campaign.
	rylibweb.man.ac.uk /data2/spcoll/wing (236 words)

	CHARLES ORDE WINGATE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Orde Wingate fue un firme creyente en la Biblia, abrazó la visión profética de la redención judía y el retorno de los judíos a Eretz Israel.
		Wingate fue reconocido como un militar de mucho talento, y en 1936 consiguió el grado de capitán.
		Wingate volvió brevemente a Gran Bretaña al servicio activo y en 1941 lucho en Etiopía contra los italianos.
	www.galeon.com /historiadeisrael/charles_orde_wingate.htm (368 words)

	::Orde Wingate::
		Orde Wingate was a British general in World War Two who helped to revolutionise the way war could be fought in the jungle.
		Orde Wingate was by any standards unconventional but his impact in the war in the Far East should not be underestimated - neither should the part played by his Chindits.
		In May 1942, Wingate was sent to Burma where he formed 'Wingate's Raiders' - though they are better known as the Chindits, named after the Burmese word 'chinthe' meaning lions; after the lion statues that guarded the temples in Burma.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /orde_wingate.htm (589 words)

	Wingate Institute
		The Wingate Institute, Israel's National Center for Physical Education and Sport, was inaugurated in 1957 and us named in honor of Major-General Orde Charles Wingate.
		In recognition of extraordinary achievements in the fields of education, research, sport medicine and for impeccable management, the Wingate Institute was awarded the prestigious Israel Prize by the President of the State of Israel in 1989.
		The aim of the College is to train qualified educators to teach and instruct physical education and physical activity in schools, municipal sports departments, and community centers.
	www.jewishsports.net /wingate_institute.htm (608 words)

	The Second World War Experience Centre - Major General Orde Wingate 1903 - 1944 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		He was one of many who died in the Second World War but in his case of course, Wingate was not exactly unique, but because everything around the Chindit operations had been predicated on the way in which he regarded them.
		Because Wingate died before the battle came to an end it's probably impossible to give a sound historical summary on whether or not Special Force, the Chindits, did succeed in what they were doing, and can I summarise it in this way.
		Wingate was far too restless a person, and let me say here that the few years that I spent wrestling with Wingate when I was writing the biography was one of the most difficult periods of my life.
	www.war-experience.org /history/keyfigures/wingate/pagethree.htm (2446 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Fire in the Night : Wingate of Burma, Ethiopia, and Zion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Wingate's detractors are given their say, as are those who revered him, including Chaim Weizmann and Winston Churchill, whose patronage made Wingate's career possible.
		Orde Wingate has been the hero of many, not so much because he was a military successful warrior, but because he was wildly unconventional at a time when staid ethics and methods of war were leading to defeats of the western allies on all fronts.
		Wingate pioneered unconventional warfare with his notion that large unit groups can function in the rear of the enemy for long periods of time if they were self-sufficient and well trained.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375500618?v=glance (3343 words)

	Sample text for Library of Congress control number 98056456
		Orde Wingate may have been an outsider, but he was an insider's outsider, just as the Zionists themselves, for all their outsider status, had powerful insider connections within the British establishment.
		Wingate, still passionately involved in Zionist affairs--and particularly in the campaign to raise a Palestinian Jewish legion as part of the Allied forces--was one of the regulars at these meetings, where he was able to expand his circle of influential acquaintances.
		Had he known of it, Wingate would no doubt have been excited by this recommendation, not just because it was an indication that, despite evidence to the contrary, his stock was high in influential circles, but because of his particular concern for the fate of Abyssinia.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/random044/98056456.html (4526 words)

	South African Military History Society - Journal - Tribute to Major-General Orde Charles Wingate, DSO & Bar
		To see Wingate urging action on some hesitant commander was to realise how a medieval baron felt when Peter the Hermit got after him to go crusading.
		We are proud to have Wingate’s force as part of the Fourteenth Army.
		The men he led, his Chindits, know that the finest tribute they can pay to the great leader is to complete his work and to perpetuate in themselves his courage and his determination to strike to the utmost in their country’s cause.
	rapidttp.com /milhist/vol042rp.html (989 words)

	Mackubin Thomas Owens on Orde Wingate on National Review Online
		Orde Wingate was a brilliant but eccentric British officer who died in a military plane crash in Burma in 1944.
		In the face of an Arab revolt in Palestine, Wingate pushed for an alliance between the British and Palestinian Jews.
		As was his wont, Wingate let his superiors know what he thought of some of his colleagues.
	nationalreview.com /owens/owens200405070828.asp (785 words)

	ipedia.com: Charles Orde Wingate Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Major General Charles Orde Wingate was a British major general and creator of two special military units during the World War II.
		Beginnings Charles Orde Wingate was born February 23 1903 in India to...
		After Wavell had given his permission, Wingate convinced the Zionist Jewish Agency and leadership of Haganah, the Jewish armed group.
	www.ipedia.com /charles_orde_wingate.html (962 words)

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