The son of numismatist
George C. Brooke, after education at
Bradfield College, he matriculated at
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1936. After clinical training at
St Bartholomew's Hospital, he qualified MRCS in 1939 and graduated
MB BChir in 1940 and MChir in 1944 from the University of Cambridge. He was elected FRCS in 1942 and was chief surgical assistant at St Bartholomew's Hospital. In 1944 he joined the
RAMC and served as a lieutenant colonel in charge of a surgical division. ==Selected publications==