Wardle was the first of four sisters when she was born in 1910 in New South Wales in the Sydney suburb of Hornsby.
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.
[2] She had intended to study for a masters degree in Paris but finances directed her to teaching at the Cornish Liskeard County School.
[3] 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.
[2] Wardle died in Canberra on 22 April 1992 after a collision with a lorry when she ran a red traffic light.