| Wingate | Alien Sievwright | | Captain | He died of wounds received in action December 11th, 1899, at Magersfontein. He was the son of J B Wingate of Crown Terrace, Glasgow, was born in December 1870, and educated at Loretto School, Musselburgh, where he played in the football XV. He was also a first-class cricketer and very fond of games. He entered the Gordon Highlanders in March 1891, being promoted Lieutenant September 1893, and Captain May 1899. He served with the Chitral Relief Force under Sir Robert Low, in 1895, with the first battalion of his regiment, including the storming of the Malakand Pass, receiving the medal with clasp. He saw service in the campaign on the North-West Frontier of India under Sir William Lockhart, in 1897-98, with the Tochi Field Force, when he was attached to the 3rd Battalion Rifle Brigade. He afterwards went through the campaign with the Tirah Expeditionary Force, with the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders, and was present at the capture of the Sampagha and Arhanga Passes, and in the subsequent operations in the Maidan, Waran, and Bara Valleys, receiving two clasps. Captain Wingate embarked for South Africa in October 1899, with his battalion, which joined the Kimberley Relief Force shortly before the battle of Magersfontein, in which he fell.
Source: Donner | Gordon Highlanders |
| Wingate | Francis Reginald | | Captain | WINGATE, SIR FRANCIS REGINALD, General, GCB, GCVO GBE, KCMG, DSO, DCL (Oxon), LLD (Edinburgh), was born at Broadfield, Renfrewshire, 25 June 1861, seventh son of Andrew Wingate, Glasgow, and Bessie, daughter of Richard Turner, of Dublin. He was educated at St James's Collegiate School, Jersey, and at the RMA, Woolwich, and became Lieutenant, Royal Artillery, 27 July 1880; served in India and Aden, 1881-83; was employed with Egyptian Army, 4 June 1883 to 4 June 1885; was Commandant, Cholera Hospital, 1883 (Fourth Class Osmanieh); acted as ADC and Military Secretary to General Sir Evelyn Wood during the Nile Expedition, and in the Bayuda Desert, 1884-85 (Medal with clasp; Bronze Star; Fourth Class Medjidie; Despatches, 25 August 1885); was ADC to GOC, Eastern District, 1 April 1886 to 30 April 1886; rejoined the Egyptian Army, May 1886. He was present at the Battle of Toski as AAG Intelligence, 1889; was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 6 September 1889], and created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order [London Gazette, 8 November 1889]: "Francis Reginald Wingate, Captain and Brevet Major, Royal Artillery. In recognition of services during the action at Toski". The insignia were presented to him in Egypt by the Sirdar, 1 August 1890. He was promoted Captain 14 January 1889, and Brevet Major 15 January 1889. In 1888 he married Catherine Leslie, daughter of Captain Joseph Sparkhall Rundle, RN (she was a Lady of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, and had the Grand Cordon of the Order of Kemal of Egypt); they had two sons (one of whom was Captain and Brevet Major Malcolm Roy Wingate, DSO, MC, Croix de Guerre avec Palmes, who was killed near Lagnicourt, France, on the 21st March 1918, whilst in command of the 459th Field Company, Royal Engineers. His elder son, Ronald E L Wingate, of the Indian Civil Service, was Political Agent and Consul at Muscat), and one daughter, Victoria Alexandrina Catharine, god-daughter of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. He was present at the action of Afafit and recapture of Tokar, 1891 (Clasp to Bronze Star, and Third Class Medjidie); was AMS 31 May to 31 December 1893; Director of Military Intelligence 1 January 1894 to 31 December 1898; acted as Governor, Red Sea Littoral, and OC troops, Suakin, 1894; created a CB (civil) 1895. He took part in the Dongola Campaign as Director of Military Intelligence, being present at the operations of 7 June and 19 September 1896 (Despatches [London Gazette, 3 November 1896]; Brevet Lieutenant Colonel, 18 November 1896; Medal with two clasps); Member of Special Mission to King Menelik of Abyssinia, 1897 (Second Class Star of Ethiopia). For his services in the Nile Expedition, 1897, ADC to the Sovereign, 17 June 1897 to 26 June 1908; Colonel, 17 December 1897 (Clasp). In the Nile Expedition of 1898, as Director of Military Intelligence, he was present at the Battle of the Atbara, 1898 (Despatches; Clasp); Battle of Khartoum and Expedition to Fashoda (Despatches, 24 May and 30 September 1898; KCMG; Clasp; thanked by both Houses of Parliament); was Adjutant-General, 1 January 1899 to 21 December 1899, and was Sirdar of the Egyptian Army and Governor-General of the Sudan from 22 December 1899, till 31 December 1916. In the Nile Expedition of 1899 he was in command of operations resulting in the death of the Khalifa, near Gedid (Despatches, 30 January 1900; KCB (Mil); Second Class Osmanieh; two clasps to Egyptian Medal); in charge of special mission to Somaliland, 1909. During the tenure of his appointment in the Sudan he organized a large number of expeditions for the pacification of that country, including the reconquest of Darfur in 1916 (Sudan Medal and clasp). Since the inception of the Arab Revolt in Arabia (1916), he has been General Officer Commanding Hedjaz operations. During the War 1914-19 he was frequently mentioned in Despatches in connection with operations in the Sudan, Palestine, and Arabia. He was appointed High Commissioner for Egypt on 1 January 1917, in which appointment he was succeeded by Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby on 15 October 1919. He became Major General, 27 June 1903; Lieutenant General, 26 June 1908; General, November 1913; GCVO, 1912; GCB (Mil.), 1914; GBE, 1918; Pasha of Egypt; had Grand Cordon of Osmanieh, 1905; Medjidie, 1900; the Nile, 1915; and Mohammed AH, 1916; Coronation Medals, 1902 and 1911; was a Knight of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem; DCL Oxford, 1905; LLD Edinburgh, 1919; Honourable Member, Zoological Society of London; FRGS; Freedom, Royal Borough of Dunbar, 1900; Colonel Commandant of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, and Honourable Colonel of the 7th Battalion (TF) The Manchester Regiment; District Grand Master of Egypt and the Sudan since 1900, and of North Africa (Mark Master Masons). He wrote 'Mahdiism and the Egyptian Sudan', 1889; 'Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp', 1891; translated and edited Slatin Pasha's 'Fire and Sword in the Sudan', 1895.
Source: DSO recipients (VC and DSO Book) | Royal Artillery |
