Edmund Drake-Brockman

Edmund Drake-Brockman

Major General Edmund Alfred Drake-Brockman CB, CMG, DSO (21 February 1884 - 1 June 1949), was born in Busselton, Western Australia. He was the son of surveyor Frederick Slade Drake-Brockman and heroine Grace Vernon Bussell and brother of Deborah Vernon Hackett. He was a distinguished Australian Soldier, Statesman, and Judge who served in both World War I and II. He was made a Companion of St Michael and St George (CMG) for his services at Gallipoli.

Elected to the Australian Senate in 1919 as a Nationalist Party of Australia representative, Drake-Brockman served in the Senate until 1926.