Tom Drake-Brockman

Sir Thomas Charles Drake-Brockman, DFC (15 May 1919 – 28 August 1992) was an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Western Australia from 1959 to 1978 and also briefly in 1958.

His father was a member of a pioneering Western Australian family, while his mother was a schoolteacher and former novice nun originally from Kilkee, Ireland.

[2][3] In 1945, following his return from the war, Drake-Brockman went into partnership with his parents and two brothers to acquire the Boodadong estate at Yerecoin, previously owned by Horace Berry.

They established a mixed farming property, including cereal crops, sheep, beef cattle and pigs.

He first nominated for Country Party preselection at the 1958 Western Australian Legislative Council election, but was defeated for endorsement in Midland Province by Charles Simpson.

[4] In 1942, while in England, Drake-Brockman married Edith "Mollie" Sykes, a private in the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service.

He was active in the RAAF Association, serving as a senior state vice-president and as chair of the committee overseeing the Aviation Heritage Museum.

Drake-Brockman in 1961