Captain Basil Richard Brooke DSO & Bar (28 November 1882 – 8 October 1929) was a Royal Navy officer.
Basil Brooke was the son of John Townshend Brooke of Haughton Hall, Shifnal, Shropshire, and his wife Lady Wilhelmina, daughter of William Legge, 4th Earl of Dartmouth.
He was educated at Arnold House,[1] Llanddulas, and entered HMS Britannia as a naval cadet in 1898.
Brooke served throughout the First World War in the Mine Clearance Force, being promoted commander in 1916 and awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in July 1917[4] and a Bar in January 1920.
[6] Both his brothers were killed in the war while serving in the British Army.