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{{CaptRN}} (retired) '''Ernest Leslie Cardale''' (16 September, 1879 &ndash; ) was an officer in the [[Royal Navy]].

==Life & Career==
Born in Stoke, Devon the son of Admiral [[Charles Searle Cardale]].<ref>Cardale Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/127.|D7603379}} f. 131.</ref>

On 3 August, 1898, he was ordered home from service in the Pacific aboard the {{UK-Imperieuse|f=t}} to take up an appointment to the [[Training Squadron]], arriving in England on 15 October.  He served in the {{UK-1Raleigh|f=t}} from 5 November, 1898 until 15 September, 1899.<ref>Cardale Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/127.|D7603379}} f. 131.</ref>

Appointed to the {{UK-Vindictive}} in the Mediterranean on 4 July, 1900, Cardale was re-appointed to the ship, additional upon his promotion to the rank of {{LieutRN}} on 31 December, 1901.<ref>Cardale Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/127.|D7603379}} f. 131.</ref>

Cardale was promoted to the rank of {{LCommRN}} on 31 December, 1909.<ref>Cardale Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/127.|D7603379}} f. 131.</ref>

On 23 September 1912, he was admitted to Plymouth Hospital to be treated for an inguinal hernia on the right side.  He was declared fit on 14 December.<ref>Cardale Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/127.|D7603379}} f. 131.</ref>

==Great War==
Cardale was promoted to the rank of {{CommRN}} on 30 June, 1915.<ref>Cardale Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/127.|D7603379}} f. 131.</ref>

Cardale married Katherine Gwen Mudge on 14 July, 1915 at Plympton St. Mary, in Devon.

Cardale was tried by a Court Martial on 22 February, 1917 for stranding {{UK-1Crusader}} and was acquitted.  On 19 May, 1917 there was a collision between {{UK-Nugent}} and {{UK-Myngs}}, resulting in Cardale being relieved in command of ''Nugent'' in June and being unemployed for about a month until his appointment in command of the comparatively modest {{UK-Harpy|f=cp}} on 12 July, 1917.  Misfortune of some kind not very legible visited him again in 1917, when there was another Court Martial in {{UK-Blenheim}} on a charge of "negligently hazarding" ''Harpy'' and another ship by default.  It appears that this charge was proved.  On the strength of favorable reports from Captain [[Percy Withers|Withers]] ("Good commander of a T.B.D. division") and [[John Barnes Sparks|Sparks]] ("sorry to lose him, etc"), Cardale stayed in ''Harpy'' until being appointed in command of {{UK-Rival}} on 5 November, 1918.<ref>Cardale Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/127.|D7603379}} f. 131.</ref>

==Post-War==
Cardale remained in command of {{UK-Rival}} through the end of the war and as the fleet was transitioning to a smaller post-war incarnation.  As was so often the case, he found himself in command of several unnamed destroyers being reduced to reserve in early 1919.

Cardale transition to command of {{UK-Scout}} on 13 November, 1919 (or {{UK-Taurus}}, according to the Navy Lists) as he continued his oversight of the destroyers passing into reserve.<ref>Cardale Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/127.|D7603379}} f. 131.</ref>

Cardale was placed on the Retired List with the rank of {{CaptRN}} on 3 May, 1925.<ref>Cardale Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/127.|D7603379}} f. 131.</ref>

==See Also==
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* [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_rv=simple&_q=ADM+Ernest+Leslie+Cardale Service Records]
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