Alexander Wardrop
{{Short description|British Army general}}
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| name =Sir Alexander Wardrop
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| birth_date =15 September 1872
| death_date ={{dda|22 June 1961|15 September 1872|df=y}}
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| birth_place =Bombay, British India
| death_place =Upham, Hampshire, England
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| allegiance ={{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom
| branch =23px British Army
| serviceyears =1892−1937
| rank =General
| unit =First World War
| commands =British Troops in Palestine
Northern Command
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| awards =Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
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General Sir Alexander Ernest Wardrop {{postnominals|country=GBR|GCB|CMG}} (15 September 1872 – 22 June 1961) was a British Army General who rose to high rank in the 1930s.{{cite news |title= Obituary: Gen. Sir Alexander Wardrop |work=The Times |date= 24 June 1961|page= 10}}
Education
Wardrop was the only son of Maj.-Gen. Alexander Wardrop. He was educated at Haileybury and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
Military career
Wardrop was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1892.[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/WARDROP.shtml Sir Alexander Ernest Wardrop] Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives He served in the Great War, initially as a Brigadier in the Guards Division which formed part of the British Expeditionary Force. He served in France and took part in the Battle of Vittorio Veneto in Italy in 1918.
After the war he was promoted to substantive major general in June 1919{{London Gazette|issue=31395|page=7421|date=6 June 1919}} and served as commander, Royal Artillery for the Third Army from 1918 and then Commander of British Troops in Palestine from 1921.
He became Quartermaster-General for India in 1930 and General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Northern Command in 1933; he retired in 1937. He lived at Upham in Hampshire.[https://books.google.com/books?id=1RheQNq72R0C&dq=%22General+Sir+Alexander+Wardrop%22&pg=PA260 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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Category:People educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College
Category:Graduates of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Category:Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
Category:Royal Artillery officers
Category:British Army generals of World War I
Category:Military personnel of British India