Robert Brooke-Popham, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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senior commander in the Royal Air Force, previously served in the Royal Flying Corps
Date of Birth: 18-Sep-1878
Place of Birth: Mendlesham, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 20-Oct-1953
Profession: military officer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Robert Brooke-Popham
- Air Chief Marshal Sir Henry Robert Moore Brooke-Popham, (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.
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