Ormonde Winter

==First World War==

==First World War==

Winter first saw action as an artillery officer during the [[Gallipoli campaign]], arriving on W beach, Lancashire Landing, on 29 April 1915 after surviving an attack on his transport, the SS ''Monitor'', from an [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] torpedo boat before arriving at the front. In his autobiography, he recalls turning back a fleeing gun crew at revolver point on 1 May, helping to save a battalion of [[Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers]] from annihilation. Although not a trained intelligence officer, he was noted for his skilful questioning of Turkish prisoners. He would later be put in charge of a 12 pounder field gun nicknamed 'Wandering Kate' and would be evacuated on 8 December. Winter later remarked that he enjoyed every minute of his service at [[Gallipoli]].

Winter first saw action during the [[World War I|First World War]] as an artillery officer during the [[Gallipoli campaign]], arriving on W beach, Lancashire Landing, on 29 April 1915 after surviving an attack on his transport, the SS ''Monitor'', from an [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] torpedo boat before arriving at the front.

In his autobiography, he recalls turning back a fleeing gun crew at revolver point on 1 May, helping to save a battalion of the [[Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers]] from annihilation. Although not a trained intelligence officer, he was noted for his skilful questioning of Turkish prisoners. He would later be put in charge of a 12 pounder field gun nicknamed 'Wandering Kate' and would be evacuated on 8 December. Winter later remarked that he enjoyed every minute of his service at [[Gallipoli]].

He would later be deployed to the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]], arriving in [[France]] as part of the 11th Division on 7 September and taking command of the artillery for the 34th Infantry Brigade on 24 October. He would take part in the battles for [[Messines Ridge]] on 7 June 1917 and afterwards [[Battle of Passchendaele|Passchendaele]]. In his autobiography, he recounts escaping death on several occasions and being horrified that the walls of his command bunker were shored up with the corpses of German soldiers.{{cn|date=March 2025}}

He would later be deployed to the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]], arriving in [[France]] as part of the [[11th (Northern) Division]] on 7 September and taking command of the artillery of the [[34th Division (United Kingdom)|34th Division]] on 24 October. He would take part in the battles for [[Messines Ridge]] on 7 June 1917 and afterwards [[Battle of Passchendaele|Passchendaele]].

In his autobiography, he recounts escaping death on several occasions and being horrified that the walls of his command bunker were shored up with the corpses of German soldiers.{{cn|date=March 2025}}

==Intelligence work in Ireland==

==Intelligence work in Ireland==