High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Moore "Henry" Brooke-Popham, GCVO, KCB, CMG, DSO, AFC, (18 September 1878 ? 20 October 1953) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force. During World War I he served in the Royal Flying Corps as wing commander and senior staff officer. Most notably, Brooke-Popham was Commander-in-Chief of the British Far East Command only months before Singapore fell to Japanese troops.