Robert Brooke-Popham
Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal (1878–1953) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Air Chief Marshal Sir Henry Robert Moore Brooke-Popham,[2] 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 until being replaced a few weeks before Singapore fell to Japanese troops.
Sir Robert Brooke-Popham | |
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Nickname(s) | Brookham[1] |
Born | (1878-09-18)18 September 1878 Mendlesham, Suffolk |
Died | 20 October 1953(1953-10-20) (aged 75) RAF Halton, Buckinghamshire |
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/ | British Army (1898–1918) Royal Air Force (1918–1942) |
Years of service | c. 1898–1937 1939–1942 |
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) |