Bertram Sergison-Brooke
Sir Bertram Sergison-Brooke | |
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![]() Sergison-Brooke (right) with Churchill in London, January 1941 | |
Born | 20 July 1880 |
Died | 1967 (aged 86 or 87) |
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/ | British Army |
Years of service | 1899–1942 |
Rank | Lieutenant General |
Commands | London District 1st (Guards) Brigade 15th Infantry Brigade Grenadier Guards 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards 2nd Guards Brigade |
Battles/wars | Second Boer War First World War Second World War |
Awards | Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George Distinguished Service Order Mentioned in Despatches Order of the Crown (Belgium) Legion of Honour (France) |
Lieutenant General Sir Bertram Norman Sergison-Brooke, KCB, KCVO, CMG, DSO (20 July 1880 – 1967) was a senior British Army officer who served as Major-General commanding the Brigade of Guards and General Officer Commanding London District. He was born Bertram Norman Brooke but changed his surname in 1915 following his marriage to his first wife.
Military career
Brooke was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards as a second lieutenant on 12 August 1899.[1] He served in the Second Boer War in South Africa, and was promoted to lieutenant on 14 December 1900.[2] Following the end of the war in June 1902 he returned with most of the men of the guards regiments on board the SS Lake Michigan, which arrived in Southampton in October 1902.[3] He then served with the Egyptian Army.[1]
He also served in the First World War, initially as Assistant Embarkation Officer in Southampton and then as a Brigade Major in France.[1] By 1917 he was commanding 2nd Guards Brigade but was gassed on the Western Front.[4]
After the war he became Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards and then, in 1923, went on to be Commander of the Grenadier Guards and Regimental District.[1] He was appointed Commander of 15th Infantry Brigade in China in 1927 and then Commander of the 1st (Guards) Brigade at Aldershot in 1928.[1] He was made Brigadier on the General Staff at Eastern Command in India in 1931 and Major-General commanding the Brigade of Guards and General Officer Commanding London District in 1934.[1] He retired in 1939 but, with the Second World War underway, he was recalled as General Officer Commanding London District.[1] He retired again in 1942.[1]
He was British Red Cross Commissioner with the Allied Army of Liberation from 1943 to 1945.[1]
His home was in Slaugham in West Sussex.[5]
Family
In 1915 he married Prudence Ida Evelyn Sergison; they had one daughter.[6] Then in 1923 he married Hilda Fenwick; they had one son.[6]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
- ^ Hart′s Army list, 1903
- ^ "The Army in South Africa - Troops returning home". The Times. No. 36876. London. 18 September 1902. p. 5. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
- ^ Senior Officer Casualties
- ^ 'Parishes: Slaugham', A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 7: The rape of Lewes (1940), pp. 181–186 Date accessed: 14 June 2010
- ^ a b The Peerage.com
- 1880 births
- 1967 deaths
- Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
- Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
- Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
- Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
- Grenadier Guards officers
- British Army generals of World War II
- British Army personnel of the Second Boer War
- British Army personnel of World War I
- Red Cross personnel