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

[2][3] The citation for his MC appeared in The London Gazette in September 1918 and reads as follows: For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when all the telephone lines from brigade headquarters to batteries and observation posts had been cut by enemy shell fire.

He took out linesmen under heavy fire and mended them; and also kept up visual signalling and a service of runners, so that brigade headquarters were rarely out of communication with batteries and observation posts, and orders were successfully carried out.

[1] He served in World War II as a General Staff Officer 1 with the British Expeditionary Force in France from 26 April 1940 to 30 June 1940 and took part in the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940.

He was appointed deputy adjutant general and acting major-general 4 October 1942 in Simla and as commander of the Madras Area in India from 1944.