Patrick Brooking

Major-General Patrick Guy Brooking CB MBE DL (born 4 April 1937) was Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin.

Military career
Educated at Charterhouse School and the Alliance française, Brooking was commissioned into the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards in 1956. He served with 39th Brigade in Belfast from 1974 to 1975 when he became Commanding Officer of his Regiment. He became an Instructor at the Staff College, Camberley in 1978, Chief of Staff of 4th Armoured Division in 1979 and Commander of 33rd Armoured Brigade in 1982. He was appointed Assistant Chief of Staff for UK Land Forces in 1984 and Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin in 1985. Finally he became Director-General of Army Manning & Recruiting in 1989; he retired in 1990.

He was also Colonel of the Royal Dragoon Guards.

In retirement he became Chairman of the British-German Association, a not-for-profit organisation devoted to forging links between the two countries. He also became Deputy Lieutenant of Wiltshire.

Family
In 1964 he married Pamala Mary Walford: they went on to have one son and one daughter.