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Air Chief Marshal Sir Henry Robert Moore Brooke-Popham, GCVO, KCB, CMG, DSO, AFC (18 September 1878 – 20 October 1953) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force. During the First World War he served in the Royal Flying Corps as a wing commander and senior staff officer.
Sir Henry Robert Moore Brooke-Popham (18 de setembro de 1878 – 20 de outubro de 1953) foi um oficial da Real Força Aérea (RAF). Durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial serviu no Royal Flying Corps como wing commander.
15 de out. de 2018 · This is the first biography of Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, a key figure in the early development of airpower, whose significant and varied achievements have been overlooked because of his subsequent involvement in the fall of Singapore.
“The Man Who Took the Rap”: Sir Robert Brooke-Popham and the Fall of Singapore. By Peter Dye. History of Military Aviation. Edited by Paul J. Springer. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2018. Pp. xx+412. $44.95. | The Journal of Modern History: Vol 92, No 3. Book Reviews.
23 de nov. de 2018 · The subtitle of the book is: “Sir Robert Brooke-Popham and the Fall of Singapore.” This is a well researched and well written book on the life of the man who would be best known for a nation’s failure, the loss of Singapore in the face of a Japanese tidal wave, rather than in terms of his distinguished career in the RAF and in ...
ir Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham was appointed as Commander-in-Chief Far East in October 1940: Singapore fell to the Japanese invasion in early 1942, an event which is widely symbolised as the end of the British Empire.
This is the first biography of Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, a key figure in the early development of airpower, whose significant and varied achievements have been overlooked because of his...
