Vice-Admiral Thomas Erskine Wardle, CB, DSO (9 January 1877 – 9 May 1944) was a senior officer in the Royal Navy.

[6] During the First World War he served with the 10th Cruiser Squadron under Vice Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair.

On 29 February 1916, Alcantara with HMS Andes, came upon the Greif, which appeared to be an unarmed merchant vessel flying a Norwegian flag.

[2] Captain Wardle's son followed him into the Royal Navy and was a midshipman serving in the Mediterranean fleet when his father left Greece.

[10] Wardle married Gwendolyne Gladys Marguerite Baird in 1902 in Glasgow, they had two children.