About Mike Wingate Gray
Lived 1921 – 1995 (aged 74). Mike Wingate Gray was a military personnel.
Brigadier Walter Michael Wingate Gray, (17 July 1921 – 3 November 1995) was a British Army officer who served as Colonel SAS from 1967 to 1969.
Military career Educated at Wellington College, Wingate Gray was commissioned into the Black Watch in February 1941 during the Second World War. After serving in North Africa, he took part in the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943 for which he was awarded the Military Cross (MC), and then the Normandy landings in 1944 for which he was awarded a Bar to his MC. and was deployed to Borneo during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation and then to Aden during the Aden Emergency before becoming Commander SAS Group as a colonel in 1967.
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Colonel SAS
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Mike Wingate Gray was born on 17 July 1921.
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Mike Wingate Gray died on 3 November 1995.
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