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General Sir Alexander Ernest Wardrop Template:Postnominals (15 September 1872 – 22 June 1961) was a British Army General who rose to high rank in the 1930s.[1]
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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 [{{{url}}} Obituary: Gen. Sir Alexander Wardrop]. The Times(24 June 1961).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Sir Alexander Ernest Wardrop Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
- ↑ Armstrong Siddeley Motors: The Cars, the Company and the People in Definitive Detail By Bill Smith, Page 261 Veloce, 2006, Template:ISBN
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