Patrick Guy Brooking

Major-General Patrick Guy Brooking (4 April 193722 January 2014) was a British Army officer who served as commandant of the British Sector in Berlin.

Early life Brooking was born on 4 April 1937. He was educated at Charterhouse School, a public boys boarding school.

Military career As part of National Service, Brooking was commissioned into the Royal Armoured Corps as a second lieutenant on 23 June 1956. On 4 April 1958, he transferred to the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards and was promoted to lieutenant. On 4 April 1964, he was promoted to captain. Having attended the Staff College, Camberley,

He served with 39th Brigade in Belfast from 1974 to 1975 when he became commanding officer of his regiment. He became an instructor at the Staff College, Camberley, in 1978, He also became deputy lieutenant of Wiltshire, and served as Master of the Worshipful Company of Broderers from 2003 to 2004.

Brooking died on 22 January 2014 at the age of 76.

Personal life In 1964 he married Pamala Mary Walford: they went on to have one son and one daughter. In the 1988 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB). In the 1997 New Year Honours, he was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) 'for services to UK-German relations in Berlin'.

He was appointed Honorary Colonel of the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards on 22 March 1991, transferring on 1 August 1992 following the amalgamation of the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards with the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards On 3 February 1997, he became deputy lieutenant (DL) of the County of Wiltshire.