Hugh Hamilton Brookes

Air Vice Marshal Hugh Hamilton Brookes CB, CBE, DFC (14 October 1904 – 16 March 1988) was a senior Royal Air Force officer.

Hugh Hamilton Brookes
Born(1904-10-14)14 October 1904
Died16 March 1988(1988-03-16) (aged 83)
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch Royal Air Force
Years of service1922–1958
RankAir Vice Marshal
Commands heldNo. 25 Group (1956–58)
AHQ Iraq (1954–56)
Rhodesian Air Training Group (1951–53)
RAF Swinderby (1948–49)
RAF Breighton (1943–46)
No. 298 Wing (1942–43)
No. 39 Squadron (1939–40)
Battles/warsSecond World War
AwardsCompanion of the Order of the Bath
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Distinguished Flying Cross
Mentioned in Despatches (2)

Biography

Born on 14 October 1904, Hugh Hamilton Brookes was educated at Bedford School and at the Royal Air Force College Cranwell. After serving in Iraq, the Western Desert, Aden and with Bomber Command during the Second World War, he was appointed as Air Officer Commanding Rhodesia from 1951 to 1954, Air Officer Commanding Iraq from 1954 to 1956, and Air Officer Commanding No. 25 Group from 1956 to 1958.[1]

Brookes retired from the Royal Air Force on 10 November 1958.[2] He died on 16 March 1988.

gollark: I think all the updater thing would need to do is:on the non-CC side, just track what files changed since the last release, generate a checksum, and either generate an archive or a bunch of URLs for it.on the CC side, periodically check a manifest file, store its own version locally, check if a newer version is available on the server, and if so download the files which have changed.
gollark: Probably gitget.
gollark: I should look at how Opus does its updates, since Opus is generally considered good.
gollark: I see. Your standards for "not too hard" are probably different to mine.
gollark: I mean, git is complicated and has many legacy things behind it, a simple CC updater thing with limited diff-ing capability is still pretty generalizable.

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