Ashton Wade

Major-General (Douglas) Ashton (Lofft) Wade CB OBE MC (13 March 1898 – 14 January 1996) was a British Army officer who led Malaya District after World War II.

Military career
Wade was commissioned into the Royal Garrison Artillery in 1916 and served in World War I in Belgium and in Italy. He transferred to Royal Corps of Signals in 1921. He was appointed Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General in Quetta in India. He served in World War II as a General Staff Officer with the British Expeditionary Force in France and then took part in the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940. He continued his war service as Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General for 2nd Division in Hull from 1941, as Deputy Adjutant General in Shimla from 1942 and as Commander of the Madras Area in India from 1944.

He was made General Officer Commanding Malaya District in 1947 and then became Member of First and Second War Crimes Review of Sentences Boards for German, Italian and Japanese war criminals in 1948 (the second review included Field Marshal Erich von Manstein) before retiring in 1950.

In retirement he became telecommunications attaché in Washington D.C. and then senior planning engineer at the Independent Television Authority.

Family
In 1926 he married Heather Bulmer; they had one daughter. Following the death of his first wife he married Cynthia Halliday (née Allen) in 1972.