Patience Australie Wardle

Patience Australie Wardle OAM known as Pat Wardle born Patience Australie Tillyard (20 June 1910 – 22 April 1992) was an Australian local historian, writer and diarist.

Life Wardle was the first of four sisters when she was born in 1910 in New South Wales in the Sydney suburb of Hornsby. Her mother Pattie (born Craske) was like her father, Robin John Tillyard, was born in the UK. When she was twelve she started a lifelong interest in keeping a diary. In 1929 she was in the small minority of Australian women who went to University. She studied at the University of Sydney. She lived at the Women's College where her interest in hockey made her a University Blue and her study of English, Latin and History gained her a degree. In 1942 she was in Australia where she became an officer in the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) attending Administration training at the Queen's College in Melbourne. She rose to be a Flight Lieutenant and the commandant of 2,000 WAAAF women in Melbourne. She served until 1946.