Robert Brooke-Popham
| Sir Robert Brooke-Popham | |
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Brooke-Popham (left) with General Wavell
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| Nickname(s) | Brookham |
| Born |
18 September 1878 Mendlesham, Suffolk |
| Died | 20 October 1953 (aged 75) RAF Halton, Buckinghamshire |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Service/branch |
British Army (1898–18) Royal Air Force (1918–42) |
| Years of service | c. 1898–37 1939–42 |
| Rank | Air Chief Marshal |
| Commands held |
Far East Command (1940–41) Inspector-General of the RAF (1935) Air Defence of Great Britain (1933–35) Imperial Defence College (1931–33) Iraq Command (1928–30) RAF Staff College, Andover (1922–26) No. 3 Wing RFC (1914–15) No. 3 Squadron RFC (1912–14) |
| Battles/wars |
Second Boer War First World War Second World War |
| Awards |
Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George Distinguished Service Order Air Force Cross Mentioned in Despatches (4) Officer of the Legion of Honour (France) Order of Saint Stanislaus, 2nd Class (Russia) |
Air Chief Marshal Sir Henry Robert Moore Brooke-Popham,GCVO, KCB, CMG, DSO, AFC (18 September 1878 – 20 October 1953) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force. During the First World War he served in the Royal Flying Corps as a wing commander and senior staff officer. Remaining in the new Royal Air Force (RAF) after the war, Brooke-Popham was the first commandant of its Staff College at Andover and later held high command in the Middle East. He was Governor of Kenya in the late 1930s. Most notably, Brooke-Popham was Commander-in-Chief of the British Far East Command only months before Singapore fell to Japanese troops.
Brooke-Popham was born in England in the Suffolk village of Mendlesham on 18 September 1878. His parents were Henry Brooke, a country gentleman of Wetheringsett Manor in Suffolk, and his wife Dulcibella who was the daughter of Robert Moore, a clergyman.
Brooke-Popham's education was not atypical of a man entering the British officer class. After his school years at Haileybury and his officer training at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he was commissioned into the British Army in 1898. In January 1926, Brooke-Popham married Opal Mary, the daughter of Edgar Hugonin. They later had a son and a daughter.
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