Major General Edmund Alfred Drake-Brockman

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Photograph ART00096
Service number V47245
Ranks Held Brigadier General, Lieutenant Colonel, Major, Temporary Brigadier General
Birth Date 21/02/1884
Birth Place Australia: Western Australia, Busselton
Death Date 01/06/1949
Death Place Australia: Victoria
Final Rank Major General
Service Australian Imperial Force
Units
  • 11th Australian Infantry Battalion
  • 16th Australian Infantry Battalion
  • 4th Australian Division
  • 4th Australian Infantry Brigade
  • Unattached List
Places
Conflicts/Operations
  • First World War, 1914-1918
  • Second World War, 1939-1945

Collection items

    Media


    General Sir William Riddell Birdwood reviewing an Australian Division at Ribemont, after they had ...

    Group portrait of officers of the 16th Battalion. From left to right, back row: Lieutenant (Lt) ...

    Studio portrait of 1879 Driver (Dvr) Douglas Barrett-Lennard of Guilford, Western Australia. Dvr ...

    A wooden cross marks the grave of 1879 Driver (Dvr) Douglas Barrett-Lennard of Guilford, Western ...

    Document


    Personal Files Book 3, 27 April - 29 April 1915

    Army Correspondence Book of Henry Arthur Goddard, 1917

Rolls

Timeline

Date of birth 21/02/1884 Busselton, Victoria
Date and unit at appointment (Officers) 25/05/1903 Commissioned in the militia's 11 Infantry.
Date promoted 25/11/1903 Promoted to Lieutenant.
Date promoted 09/07/1906 Promoted to Captain.
Other 1907-05-27 - 1911-04-30 Aide de Camp to the Governor of Western Australia.
Dates studied 1908 - 1909 Attended a training course at the Staff College in Quetta, India.
Date promoted 28/08/1911 Promoted to Major.
Other units 01/07/1912 Transferred to the 88th Infantry.
Other 01/07/1913 Transferred to the unattached list.
Date of enlistment 30/09/1914
Date and unit at appointment (Officers) 25/08/1914 Appointed to the 11th Battalion, AIF as a Major.
Date of embarkation 02/11/1914
Other 10/1915 Invalided home to Australia.
Date wounded 15/07/1915 Seriously wounded at Gallipoli and evacuated to Malta.
Date of honour or award 1915 Made a Companion of St Michael and St George (CMG) for his services at Gallipoli.
Other 25/04/1915 Participated in the landing at Gallipoli.
Date of embarkation 01/04/1916
Date of recommendation honour or award 10/10/1916
Other 04/1916 Returned to Egypt.
Date promoted 11/05/1916 Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and given command of the 16th Battaion.
Date of honour or award 1917 Awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) for his services in command of the 16th Battalion.
Other units 09/10/1917 Appointed to command the 4th Training Battalion.
Date of recommendation honour or award 01/03/1917
Other units 07/11/1917 Took over command of the 12th Training Battalion after the 4th Training Battalion was disbanded.
Date of recommendation honour or award 20/09/1917
Date of recommendation honour or award 05/05/1918
Date promoted 05/10/1918 Promoted to Colonel and temporary Brigadier General and took over command of the 4th Brigade.
Date promoted 03/06/1918 Breveted as a Lieutenant Colonel.
Other units 02/1918 Resumed command of the 16th Battalion
Date of recommendation honour or award 1918
Date of recommendation honour or award 12/08/1918
Date of recommendation honour or award 30/01/1919
Date returned to Australia 20/06/1919
Date of honour or award 06/1919 Made a Companion of the Bath (CB).
Date promoted 16/01/1920 Became a full Colonel and honorary Brigadier General.
Other units 1921-04-01 - 1926-05-30 Commanded the 4th Infantry Brigade.
Other 1931-04-01 - 1935-06-30 Aide de Camp to the Governor General.
Date promoted 01/06/1937 Promoted to Brigadier and took command of the 3rd Division.
Date promoted 01/07/1937 Promoted to Major General. He was only the fourth militia officer to be promoted to Major General in the decade before the Second World War.
Other 07/01/1942 Retired from the Army.
Date of death 01/06/1949 Tarnook, Victoria

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