Geoffrey Drake-Brockman

Brigadier Geoffrey Drake-Brockman, MC (2 November 1885 – 27 December 1977) was a Western Australian civil engineer, and an Australian Army officer in both World Wars.

Career In 1908 he was involved in mapping the route for the railway-line from Kalgoorlie, Western Australia to Port Augusta, South Australia. In 1921 he was appointed commissioner of the Department of the North-West (of Western Australia) based in Broome; as commissioner he recommended a survey of agricultural land at the Ord River, the planting of cotton and the development of the Kimberley region. In 1946 he was appointed assistant-director of public works, and in 1949 chairman of the Western Australian Transport Board, retiring in 1952.

Family His parents were Frederick Slade Drake-Brockman and Grace Bussell. He had four sisters and two brothers, including Major General Edmund Drake-Brockman (1884–1949) and Lady Deborah Vernon Hackett (1887–1965). They had two children, a girl and a boy.