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Bertram Sergison Brooke

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Died
  
1967 (aged 86 or 87)

Service/branch
  
British Army

Rank
  
Lieutenant General

Allegiance
  
United Kingdom

Years of service
  
1899 - 1942

Name
  
Bertram Sergison-Brooke

Bertram Sergison-Brooke
Commands held
  
2nd Guards Brigade 1st Bn Grenadier Guards Grenadier Guards 15th Infantry Brigade 1st (Guards) Brigade London District

Lieutenant General Sir Bertram Norman Sergison-Brooke KCB KCVO CMG DSO (20 July 1880 – 1967) was Major-General commanding the Brigade of Guards and General Officer Commanding London District. He was born Bertram Norman Brooke but changed his surname in 1915 following his marriage to his first wife.

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Military career

Brooke was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in 1899. He served in the Second Boer War and then with the Egyptian Army.

He also served in World War I, initially as Assistant Embarkation Officer in Southampton and then as a Brigade Major in France. By 1917 he was commanding 2nd Guards Brigade but was gassed on the Western Front.

After the War he became Commanding Officer of 1st Bn Grenadier Guards and then, in 1923, went on to be Commander of the Grenadier Guards and Regimental District. He was appointed Commander of 15th Infantry Brigade in China in 1927 and then Commander of 1st (Guards) Brigade at Aldershot in 1928. He was made Brigadier on the General Staff at Eastern Command in India in 1931 and Major-General commanding the Brigade of Guards and General Officer Commanding London District in 1934. He retired in 1939 but, with World War II underway, he was recalled as General Officer Commanding London District. He retired again in 1942.

He was British Red Cross Commissioner with the Allied Army of Liberation from 1943 to 1945.

His home was in Slaugham in West Sussex.

Family

In 1915 he married Prudence Ida Evelyn Sergison; they had one daughter. Then in 1923 he married Hilda Fenwick; they had one son.

References

Bertram Sergison-Brooke Wikipedia