Robert Brooke-Popham
British Army general
Died when: 75 years 32 days (901 months)Star Sign: Virgo
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 until being replaced a few weeks before Singapore fell to Japanese troops.
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