John Weston Brooke
John Weston Brooke FRGS (2 July 1880 – 24 December 1908) was a British military officer and explorer. Career Brooke was born at Fenay Hall, near Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, the eldest son of John Arthur Brooke and Blanche Weston, and went to school at Repton. In 1898, he joined the Yorkshire Dragoons, a Yeomanry unit, and served with the Imperial Yeomanry in the Second Boer War. He was promoted to lieutenant in the Imperial Yeomanry on 10 March 1900. An act of gallantry in the field won him a commission as second lieutenant in the 7th Hussars of the regular British Army, on the recommendation of Field Marshal the Lord Roberts, the commission was dated 3 October 1900, and in November 1900 he returned to England and joined the unit at Aldershot.Fergusson, W.N. (1911). ''Adventure, Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes'', p. preface. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York In September 1902 Brooke resigned from the army and returned to England. There he met and wo ...
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