Robert Brooke-Popham
✓ Source-basedstableSenior commander in the Royal Air Force, previously served in the Royal Flying Corps
United KingdomLived 1878 to 1953 · aged 75Air Chief Marshal Sir Henry Robert Moore Brooke-Popham, 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.
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Haileybury College where Brooke-Popham was educated
Brooke-Popham, front row third from left, with British military aviation pioneers
Brooke-Popham as Director of Aircraft Research in 1919
The first RAF Staff College course at Andover. Brooke-Popham (Commandant) is seated in the front and centre with dog on lap.Awards 8
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David HendersonAlso won Mentioned in Despatches
Charles Elworthy, Baron ElworthyAlso won Air Force CrossBill GunstonAlso won Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society
Ellis WackettAlso won Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society
Ronald Forbes AdamAlso won Mentioned in Despatches
Ralph CochraneAlso won Air Force CrossAbout this person
Air Chief Marshal Sir Henry Robert Moore Brooke-Popham, 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.
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