Geoffrey Richard Brokenshire (15 July 1922 – 28 April 1986) was an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

er in the

Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...

(VFL). The Brokenshire family is of Cornish descent.White, G. Pawley, A Handbook of Cornish Surnames.

Personal life

Brokenshire served as a

flight lieutenant Flight lieutenant is a junior commissioned rank in air forces that use the Royal Air Force (RAF) system of ranks, especially in Commonwealth countries. It has a NATO rank code of OF-2. Flight lieutenant is abbreviated as Flt Lt in the India ...

in the

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during the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

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Carlton Football Club players Collingwood Football Club players Sandringham Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Melbourne Australian people of Cornish descent 1922 births 1986 deaths Royal Australian Air Force personnel of World War II Royal Australian Air Force officers Military personnel from Melbourne People from Brighton, Victoria {{AFL-bio-1920s-stub