46 Facts About Ronald Wingate

At the outbreak of the Second World War, Ronald Wingate served with the Ministry of Economic Warfare in Africa and Southeast Asia.

Ronald Wingate became the Deputy Controller of the LCS in 1943 and helped to form numerous deception plans including Plan Jael, later called Operation Bodyguard.

Ronald Wingate was a cousin of Lawrence of Arabia and Orde Ronald Wingate.

Ronald Wingate spent his early childhood in Cairo with his family, but in 1889 he was sent to live in England and enter school.

Ronald Wingate left Bradfield and entered Balliol College, Oxford, where he went to receive an MA.

Ronald Wingate was immediately sent back to Oxford, where he spent a year studying Urdu and Persian.

In 1913, Ronald Wingate began his ICS career as an Assistant Commissioner in Punjab, posted in Sialkot.

Ronald Wingate "worked ceaselessly" at the various tasks of administration during the period, but enjoyed his duties.

At the beginning of the First World War, Ronald Wingate immediately volunteered to serve in Europe, but like most other members of the ICS, he was turned down.

In June 1917, after only a year in Delhi, Ronald Wingate joined the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force as an assistant political officer.

Ronald Wingate first worked to re-establish a customs system in liberated territories.

Ronald Wingate then led the team of political officers in Najaf, where he worked to establish a police force and establish a basic system of taxation.

Ronald Wingate was responsible for entertaining notable Western guests who passed through Najaf, including Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia.

Ronald Wingate helped to foil a plot by the Committee of Union and Progress to promote an uprising in Najaf by ordering one of his aides to get the CUP agent drunk, leading him to reveal the details of the plot.

When Ronald Wingate arrived in Oman, the country was in a state of turmoil due to a long-standing power struggle between the Imamate of Oman and the Sultan of Oman.

Ronald Wingate initially found the Sultan, Taimur bin Feisal, uncooperative in efforts to reach a settlement.

Ronald Wingate began by collecting unpaid customs duties in order to raise more revenue for the Sultan, and sent emissaries to Isa Bin Salih, the Imam's chief deputy.

Ronald Wingate promised that upon the conclusion of an agreement, the tax on dates would be reduced to five percent.

Ronald Wingate convinced the tribal leaders that the Imam should sign the agreement only in his capacity as a representative of the Omani tribes.

The agreement was well received in Britain and India, and Ronald Wingate received congratulatory telegrams from the Viceroy of India and the Secretary of State for India.

In July 1921, Ronald Wingate contracted malaria and was given six weeks of medical leave, which he decided to spend in Kashmir.

Srinagar was the site of a large club for British military officers and civil servants, and Ronald Wingate, finding that he had "a minimum of work", spent much of his time socializing and playing golf.

In January 1923, Ronald Wingate was ordered back to Oman to serve as Consul a second time.

In that capacity, Ronald Wingate accompanied the agent on all of his state visits, and encountered for the first time what he considered "real India," rather than the frontier regions in which he had previously served.

In 1927, Ronald Wingate moved to the same position in Baluchistan.

In 1930, Ronald Wingate received a year's leave from India, during which he traveled around Europe.

In 1932, Ronald Wingate was appointed the Deputy Secretary of the Foreign and Political Department of the Indian government.

Ronald Wingate proposed "a scheme based upon permutations and combinations of the number of guns which were fired to salute the categories of Indian princes".

In May 1935, Ronald Wingate was granted a year's leave and went to Vichy for a much needed vacation with his wife.

Shortly thereafter, the Chief Commissioner of Baluchistan, Norman Cater, left his position and Ronald Wingate became the Acting Chief Commissioner of Baluchistan.

Ronald Wingate spent the next year traveling throughout Europe, and in early 1939, he rented a flat on the Chelsea Embankment, where he planned to live with his wife.

Ronald Wingate spent his time exploring London and soon began planning to run for a seat in House of Commons as the member from his constituency was planning to retire.

Ronald Wingate pressed for a combined strategy for the China-Burma theatre of deception; but the British did not give up throughout the war to resume parity with the United States Joint Staff Planners.

Ronald Wingate initially served as the Army representative of the operations subsection, and from March 1943 onward he served as Deputy Controller of the LCS under Colonel John Bevan, Ronald Wingate was well-qualified for the position due to his extensive social connections, including friendships with several European monarchs, as well as a reputation for cunning.

Ronald Wingate participated in the planning for many deceptions, including Operation Mincemeat's sister, codenamed Brass for which he approved the letters planted on a fake corpse.

Ronald Wingate was involved in the cover plans for Operation Neptune, the cross channel phase of Operation Overlord.

Sir Frederick Morgan, the original planner of Operation Overlord, initially believed that no deception plan could successfully disguise Neptune, but Ronald Wingate convinced him to at least allow LCS to make an effort.

Ronald Wingate radically reformed the 'mutual admiration society' in a restructuring of D Division.

Ronald Wingate departed Cairo for the last time on 23 April 1945.

The Americans were eager to hasten the end of the war, but Ronald Wingate steadied the ship, when the extent of US spycraft was an appearance by Douglas Fairbanks jr.

Ronald Wingate retired from the Commission in 1958, after it had completed most of its work.

Shortly after leaving the Tripartite Commission, Ronald Wingate was named a Companion in The Most Honourable Order of the Bath in the New Year's list of 1959.

Ronald Wingate entered the world of business, serving on the board of the Imperial Continental Gas Association from 1953 until 1966.

Ronald Wingate of the Sudan was a fairly short biography, primarily based on private correspondence and diaries, to which Ronald Wingate naturally had access.

Ronald Wingate named his memoirs, Not in the Limelight, as a reference to his own career, perpetually around significant events but rarely playing a central role in them.

Caroe and others praised the various intriguing details which Ronald Wingate revealed about both colonial India and the Second World War, for example Ronald Wingate's revelations about the Treaty of Seeb.