56640 Lt-Colonel Dorrien Richard Wingate Graham CHARLTON, OBE, MiD, 8 Hussars

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    Personal Number: 56640
    Rank: Major
    Name: Dorrien Richard Wingate Graham [COLLINS-]CHARLTON, OBE, MiD
    Unit: 8th Hussars attached Trans-Jordan Frontier Force


    London Gazette : 30 December 1941
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35396/page/7341/data.pdf
    The KING has been graciously pleased to approve that the following be Mentioned in recognition of distinguished services in the Middle East (including Egypt, East Africa, The Western Desert, The Sudan, Greece, Crete, Syria and Tobruk) during the period February, 1941, to July, 1941:—
    Hussars.
    Capt. (actg. Maj.) D. R. W. G. Charlton (56640) (attd. Trans-Jordan Frontier Force).

    London Gazette : 30 August 1946
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37706/supplement/4347/data.pdf
    ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS:
    8th H.
    Capt. (War Subs. Maj.) D. R. W. G. CHARLTON (56640) to be .Maj., 31st Aug. 1946.

    London Gazette : 20 March 1947
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37909/supplement/1311/data.pdf
    The KING has been pleased to grant unrestricted permission for the wearing of the following decorations which have been conferred on the under-mentioned personnel in recognition of distinguished services in the cause of the Allies:—
    DECORATIONS CONFERRED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
    Distinguished Service Cross.
    Major Dorrien Richard Wingate Graham CHARLTON (56640), 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps.

    London Gazette : 25 September 1947
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/38079/supplement/4522/data.pdf
    The KING has been pleased to grant unrestricted permission for the wearing of the following decorations which have been conferred on the under-mentioned personnel in recognition of distinguished services in the cause of the Allies:—
    DECORATIONS CONFERRED BY His MAJESTY THE KING OF TRANS-JORDAN.
    Order of Istiqlal, Third Class.
    Major Dorrien Richard Wingate Graham CHARLTON (56640), 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps.

    London Gazette : 10 June 1961
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/42370/supplement/4149/data.pdf
    The QUEEN has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the Celebration of Her Majesty's Birthday, to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire:
    To be Ordinary Members of the Military Division of the said Most Excellent Order :
    Major Dorrien Richard Wingate Graham COLLINS-CHARLTON (56640), The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps.

    London Gazette : 14 November 1974
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/46400/page/11120/data.pdf
    PRIVY COUNCIL OFFICE
    NOMINATION OF HIGH SHERIFFS, 1974
    The names of those who were nominated for High Sheriff in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice on the morrow of Saint Martin in the twenty-third year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth the Second and in the year of our Lord One thousand nine hundred and seventy-four.
    ENGLAND
    Essex—
    Lieut.-Colonel Dorrien Richard Wingate Graham Collins-Charlton, M.B.E., of Great Canfield Park, Takeley.

    London Gazette : 1 January 1975
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/46444/supplement/10/data.pdf
    THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire:
    To be Ordinary Officers of the Civil Division of the scad Most Excellent Order :
    Lieutenant-Colonel Dorrien Richard Wingate Graham COLLINS-CHARLTON, M.B.E., D.L., Secretary, Royal Humane Society.
     
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    • Obituary: Lt Col W. Collins-Charlton, O.B.E., M.B.E. | QRH Museum
    • "Col Wingate died on 9 September 2007, aged 94.
      He won a Distinguished Service Cross, one of America’s highest gallantry awards, in the last weeks of the campaign in Europe.
      On 19 April 1945 the tanks of the 8th King’s Royal Irish Hussars (8KRIH) were advancing on Elstorf near Hamburg, with ‘B’ Squadron, commanded by Wingate in the lead.
      As they turned onto the Autobahn, German 88mm guns opened up on them, and the whole squadron took a hull-down position, returned fire and quickly destroyed two guns.
      At the next village, they ran into another enemy strong point, consisting of four 88mm guns protected by infantry who were well dug in. Wingate went forward to reconnoitre and then overran the position, knocked out four guns and took a number of prisoners.
      The citation for his DSC paid tribute to his inspiring leadership, fearlessness and aggression.
      Dorrien Richard Wingate Graham Charlton, the son of a General who had fought in the First World War, was born at Woolwich on 30 July 1913. He was educated at Eton, where he was a keen oar and whipped in for the Eton Beagles.
      After Sandhurst, he was commissioned into 8KRIH and posted to Egypt. There he met Lee Miller, the American beauty and fashion model who subsequently became the war photographer for London Vogue. They were attracted to each other and became close friends.
      She and Wingate journeyed together to the Sinai, the Suez Canal and the Coptic monasteries at Wady Natrum, known to experts as the Troon.
      According to Carolyn Burke’s recent biography of Lee Miller: ‘They packed picnic lunches and occasionally gear for the night; the young officer introduced Lee to medieval romances, which he read aloud in their tent.
      During the day, he accompanied her as she photographed the rounded buildings from arresting angles.
      Wingate saw active service in Palestine in 1936 before being seconded to the Trans Jordan Frontier Force as adjutant and ADC to King Abdullah of Jordan.
      A good Arabist, at the outbreak of the war he became one of the young squadron leaders of John Bagot Glubb ‘Pasha’ in the Arab Legion and was Mentioned in Despatches.
      After recovering he returned to England, where he trained as a parachutist with the SOE. He was given the field name ‘Major Graham’, but two SOE missions were aborted at the last minute and he rejoined his Regiment after D-Day for the final phase of the campaign.
      He was one of the first British officers to enter Hitler’s bunker in Berlin.
      He returned to Germany after the war as second-in-command of 8 KRIH, taking with him a pack of beagles of which he became master. His war wounds meant that he had little use of his left arm and shoulder, but this did not prevent him from point-to-pointing or hunting until he was 80.
      A secondment to the Northamptonshire Yeomanry as 2IC allowed him the chance to indulge his passion for hunting with the Midlands packs.
      He then attended the Middle East Staff College before being appointed British Military and Air Attache in Damascus, where he served during the Suez crisis. After a posting to HQ Allied DLForces Central Europe at Fontainebleau, in 1962 he retired from the Army.
      For the next 30 years, Wingate worked for the Royal Humane Society, first as secretary and later as deputy chairman.
      He settled in his family home at Great Canfield Park in Essex, where he was High Sheriff in 1976 and a Deputy Lieutenant of the county from 1972 until he died.
      He threw himself into Essex life serving on the Diocesan and Deanery Synods and on the Council of Essex University where, during the ‘swinging sixties’, he proposed (unsuccessfully) that the university should have a pack of beagles and a chapel.
      He was Chairman of the Essex Branch of the Army Benevolent Fund for many years, President of SSAFA and The Playing Fields Association in Essex, and was Deputy County Commissioner of the St John’s Ambulance Brigade.
      An accomplished poet, he was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and had poems published publicly and privately. He was appointed MBE (Military Division) in 1961 and OBE in 1975. As a member of the Cavalry and Guards Club, he was frequently to be seen in the club until shortly before he died.
      He married in 1945, Angela Windle. She predeceased him, and he is survived by their two sons. He and Angela were loyal and continuous supporters of the Regimental Association, both in England and in Germany. Both loved their Regiment very much and hugely appreciated the way they were always welcomed by ‘the young’.
      With acknowledgement to the Daily Telegraph obituary 15 November 2007."
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    • SOE File - Dorian Richard Wingate Graham CHARLTON - born 30.07.1913 | The National Archives
     
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