Hugh Hamilton Brookes

Air Vice-Marshall Hugh Hamilton Brookes (1904-1988), was a senior Royal Air Force officer.

Biography
Born on 14 October 1904, Hugh Hamilton Brookes was educated at Bedford School and at the Royal Air Force College Cranwell. After serving in Iraq, the Western Desert, Aden and with RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War, he was appointed as Air Officer Commanding, Rhodesia, between 1951 and 1954, Air Officer Commanding, Iraq, between 1954 and 1956, and Air Officer Commanding, No 25 Group, RAF Flying Training Command, between 1956 and 1958.

Air Vice-Marshall Hugh Hamilton Brookes retired from the Royal Air Force on 10 November 1958. He died on 16 March 1988.