| Surname: | Broackes |
| Initials: | C |
| Rank: | Sergeant Major |
| Army Number: | ..3 |
| Notes: | MMP. Formerly 4 Dragoon Guards. Enlisted 1/8/77. London Gazette 24949, page 1150 dated 11/3/1881. Military Mounted Police Corps. Sergeant Major Charles Broackes to be Quartermaster. Dated 13/3/1881 and Quartermaster Charles Broackes, Military Mounted Police Corps, to be assistant Provost Marshal at the Curragh. Dated 12/3/1881. London Gazette 25512, page 4388, dated 18/9/1885. Quartermaster C Broackes, Military Mounted Police, from Assistant Provost Marshal at the Curragh to be a Provost Marshal at Aldershot with the relative rank of Captain, vice Quartermaster W Silk, deceased. Dated 5/7/1885 and Troop Sergeant Major John Lindas Burke, Military Mounted Police, to be Quartermaster in the Army, to perform the duties of Assistant Provost Marshal at the Curragh, vice Quartermaster C Broackes. Dated 19/9/1885. London Gazette 25572, page 1469, dated 26/3/1886. Quartermaster, with the relative ranks of Captain, C Broackes, Military Mounted Police, Provost Marshal at Aldershot, to have the honorary rank of Captain. dated 17/3/1886. London Gazette 26548, page 5145, dated 4/9/1894. Staff Quartermaster and honorary Major Charles Broackes, Military mounted Police, Provost Marshal, Aldershot, is placed on retired pay dated 31/8/1894. Extract from the Aldershot Military Gazette 26/3/1881. MILITARY MOUNTED POLICE. Quartermaster C Broackes the recently appointed assistant Provost Marshal at the Curragh, leaves Aldershot on the 30 st inst, and takes up his duties on the 1st April. It may be interesting to our readers to know that quartermaster Broackes served 19 years in the 4th Dragoon Guards, out of which time he was a non-commissioned officer 18 years. he joined the Military Mounted Police in4 in which he served two yars as sergeant 1st assistant at the Curragh, and during the last two years he had the entire charge. he was appointed Sergeant-Major on the mounted Police being formed into a distinct corps in 1977, and came to Aldershot in 1978, where he has since been stationed. During his sojourn here Quartermaster Broackes has by his courteous and general demeanour made many friends both military and civilian by whom his departure from amongst them will be greatly regretted. The admirable manner in which Quartermaster Broackes has performed his duties at Aldershot has given his superior officers every satisfaction, they have frequently spoken in praise of him. Quartermaster Broackes is succeeded by Sergeant McKerr,m late Scots Greys, who has been appointed Sergeant Major. Sergeant Major McKerr has been for a great many years a sergeant in the Military Mounted Police during which time he has gained the respect of those in authority over him. |