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A unique Officer's Dress coat, belonging to Major General Orde Charles Wingate (26 February 1903 – 24 March 1944). Wingate was a senior British Army officer infamous for his creation of the Chindit deep-penetration missions in Japanese-held territory during the WWII Burma Campaign.
Wingate unique in his unconventional military thinking and the value of surprise tactics. Assigned to Mandatory Palestine, he became a supporter of Zionism and set up a joint British–Jewish counter-insurgency unit. Under the patronage of the area commander Archibald Wavell, Wingate was given increasing latitude to put his ideas into practice during the Second World War. He created units in Abyssinia and Burma.
Wingate attracted Winston Churchill's attention with his aggressive philosophy of war.
Wingate was killed in an aircraft accident in March 1944.
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