Alexander_Wardrop

Alexander Wardrop

Alexander Wardrop

British Army general

General Sir Alexander Ernest Wardrop GCB CMG (15 September 1872 – 22 June 1961) was a British Army General who rose to high rank in the 1930s.[1]

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Education

Wardrop was the only son of Maj.-Gen. Alexander Wardrop. He was educated at Haileybury and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.[1]

Military career

Wardrop was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1892.[2] He served in the Great War, initially as a Brigadier in the Guards Division which formed part of the British Expeditionary Force.[2] He served in France and took part in the Battle of Vittorio Veneto in Italy in 1918.[2]

After the War he was Commander Royal Artillery for the 3rd Army from 1918 and then Commander of British Troops in Palestine from 1921.[2] He became Quartermaster-General for India in 1930 and General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Northern Command in 1933; he retired in 1937.[2] He lived at Upham in Hampshire.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    "Obituary: Gen. Sir Alexander Wardrop". The Times. 24 June 1961. p. 10.
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    Sir Alexander Ernest Wardrop Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
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    Armstrong Siddeley Motors: The Cars, the Company and the People in Definitive Detail By Bill Smith, Page 261 Veloce, 2006, ISBN 978-1-904788-36-2
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