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Catherine Wingate

Dame Catherine Leslie Wingate DBE (née Rundle; 26 October 1858 – 10 June 1946) was a British humanitarian and social activist.

She was the daughter of Captain Joseph Sparkhall Rundle of the Royal Navy and his wife Renira Cathrine (née Leslie), who was the daughter of Commander W. W. Leslie of the Royal Navy. Her brother was General Sir Leslie Rundle. On 18 June 1888, she married Reginald Wingate (later Sir Reginald Wingate), a Royal Artillery officer at the time.

The couple had five children:

During the First World War, Lady Wingate was president of the Cairo and Alexandria Red Cross Committee and of the Empire Nurses' Red Cross Clubs in the two cities, and for these services she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 1920 civilian war honours.

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