Alexander Wardrop

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

Education Wardrop was the only son of Maj.-Gen. Alexander Wardrop. He was educated at Haileybury and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He was promoted to Major in the Royal Horse Artillery on 5 August 1909 and on the outbreak of the Great War was commanding R Battery at Woolwich.

After seeing active service, he was appointed Commander, Royal Artillery, (CRA) of Guards Division on 13 September 1915 with the rank of Brigadier-General. He commanded the Guards Divisional Artillery on the Western Front until 29 February 1916 when he was promoted to be Corps CRA for XIV Corps. He led the corps' artillery on the Western Front and in Italian Front until 10 March 1918, when he became Brigadier-General, Royal Artillery, for the British Force in Italy. Of 3 August 1918 he returned to the Western Front when he was promoted to Major-General, Royal Artillery, of Third Army, commanding it through the Allies' victorious Hundred Days Offensive.

After the war he was promoted to substantive major general in June 1919 and served as Commander of British Troops in Palestine from 1921.

He lived at Upham in Hampshire.