Family Life and Education
Brooke-Popham was born in England in the Suffolk village of Mendlesham on 18 September 1878. His parents were, Henry Brooke, a country gentleman of Wetheringsett Manor in Suffolk and his wife Dulcibella who was the daughter of the Reverend Robert Moore.
Brooke-Popham's education was not atypical of a man entering the British officer class. After schooling at Haileybury and officer training at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he was commissioned in 1898. In January 1926, Brooke-Popham married Opal Mary, the daughter of Edgar Hugonin. They later had a son and a daughter.
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