Brigadier-General Christopher Robert Ingham Brooke, (4 July 1869 – 28 December 1948) was a British soldier and Conservative MP for

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from 1924 to 1929. He was born in Thornhill, Yorkshire in 1869, the son of

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, and was educated at

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. Brooke was a major when he fought in the

Second Boer War The Second Boer War ( af, Tweede Vryheidsoorlog, , 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, the Anglo–Boer War, or the South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics (the South ...

, where he was in command of 2nd Mounted infantry, which in 1902 was based in the

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. He later fought in the

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, and received the DSO in 1915. He was made a Companion of the

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in the

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, and retired as

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. From 1924 to 1935 Brooke was Honorary Colonel of the 5th Battalion,

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (KOYLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army. It officially existed from 1881 to 1968, but its predecessors go back to 1755. In 1968, the regiment was amalgamated with the Somerset and Cornwall ...

. He died at George, Cape Province, South Africa in 1948.

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* 1869 births 1948 deaths British Army brigadiers Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1924–1929 British Army personnel of the Second Boer War British Army personnel of World War I King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry officers Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George Companions of the Distinguished Service Order People educated at Winchester College People from Thornhill, West Yorkshire {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1860s-stub