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Lieutenant General T. B. Henderson Brooks (1909 - 1997) was a senior officer of the Indian Army who is best known for authoring the as yet classified Henderson Brooks-Bhagat Report along with Brigadier Premindra Singh Bhagat (later Lieutenant General). At the time, Henderson Brooks was the commander of XI Corps, based in Jalandhar. The report is an internal operational analysis of the Indian Army following the Indian defeat in the Sino-Indian War of 1962. He was an Anglo-Indian, and a second-generation Indian Army officer.
Biography
Thomas Bryan Henderson Brooks was born 11 January 1909 in Burma, the son of Captain Thomas Henderson Brooks, Indian Medical Department (1872-1943).
He attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and was commissioned a second lieutenant on to the Unattached List for the Indian Army on 29 August 1929. Arriving in India on 13 October 1929 he was attached, on the 14 October 1929, to the 2nd battalion Duke of Wellington Regiment, a British Army regiment stationed in India.
He was accepted into the Indian Army and posted to the 5th battalion 5th Mahratta Light Infantry on 5 November 1930. He was promoted Lieutenant 29 November 1931. He was appointed an Assistant Recruiting Officer from 1 January 1935 to 14 October 1936. He was promoted Captain 29 August 1938 (the date of promotion was later antedated to 1 August 1938).
He was appointed acting Major 15 September to 14 December 1941, then temporary Major from 15 December 1941 By October 1942 he was serving with the 3rd battalion 5th Mahratta Light Infantry. He was promoted substantive Major 29 August 1946 (the date of promotion was later antedated to 1 July 1946).
After partition in 1947 he opted for the Indian Army.
As a Major General would later command the 20th Division.
As a Lieutenant General he commanded Eastern Command from 8 November 1963 to 14 March 1964.
After retirement he emigrated to Australia where he died on 5 January 1997.