Hugh Hamilton Brookes
Senior Royal Air Force officer
About Hugh Hamilton Brookes
Lived 1904 – 1988 (aged 83).
Air Vice-Marshal Hugh Hamilton Brookes (14 October 1904 – 16 March 1988) was a senior Royal Air Force officer.
Biography Born on 14 October 1904, Hugh Hamilton Brookes was educated at Bedford School and at the Royal Air Force College Cranwell. After serving in Iraq, the Western Desert, Aden and with Bomber Command during World War II, he was appointed as Air Officer Commanding Rhodesia from 1951 to 1954, Air Officer Commanding Iraq from 1954 to 1956, and Air Officer Commanding No. 25 Group from 1956 to 1958.
Brookes retired from the Royal Air Force on 10 November 1958. He died on 16 March 1988.
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Senior Royal Air Force officer
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Hugh Hamilton Brookes was born on 14 October 1904.
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Hugh Hamilton Brookes died on 16 March 1988.
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