Born on 9 June 1871 to Charles Kennedy Brooke and Isabella Julia (
née Merston), Hugh Fenwick Brooke was educated at
Bedford School between 1885 and 1890. He received his first commission as a
second lieutenant in the
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in 1892, and was promoted to the rank of
captain in July 1899. He transferred to the
Army Service Corps for service during the
Second Boer War, and left
London for
South Africa on the SS
Oriental in March 1900. Return to the United Kingdom in 1901. Promotion to the rank of
major followed in 1906, and to the rank of
lieutenant colonel in 1914. He served during the
First World War, between 1914 and 1918, was promoted to the rank of
colonel in 1915, was appointed as Deputy Director of Supplies and Transport at the
War Office, and as Deputy Director of Supplies at General Headquarters,
France. He was promoted to the rank of
brigadier general in 1920, and retired from the
British Army in 1924.
Brigadier General Hugh Fenwick Brooke was invested as a Companion of the
Order of St Michael and St George in 1915, as a Companion of the
Order of the Bath in 1917, and as a Commander of the
Order of the British Empire in 1919. He died in
Seaview, Isle of Wight, on 13 April 1948. ==References==