Henry Robert Moore Brooke-Popham

Sir Henry Robert Moore Brooke-Popham (1878-1953) was born in Suffolk, England. In May 1898 he graduated from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was gazetted to the Oxfordshire Light Infantry as second Lieutenant. He was promoted to Captain in 1904, and entered the Staff College in 1910.

In 1912, he transferred to the Air Battalion, Royal Engineers, which became the Royal Flying Corps in May 1912. He was promoted to Brevet Major in 1913 and Major in 1915. On the outbreak of the First World War, Brooke-Popham went to France as a Staff Officer in the Headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force. In March 1916, he was appointed Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General with the temporary rank of Brigadier-General.

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