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In 1922 Henry Tom Brooks was appointed to the position of Superintendent of the Hong Kong Fire Brigade. His task was to modernize the fire service in Hong Kong which was considerably out of date. He gradually improved things and by the time he retired, as Chief Fire Officer, he had established two main fire stations and eleven sub-stations in the Colony. One of his initial achievements was to provide training facilities for the fire-fighters.

Roland Henry John Brooks (Ron), Deputy Chief Office of the Hong Kong Fire Brigade, was one of the few to be awarded the King's Police and Fire Brigade Medal for gallantry. 

Ron was 12 when he arrived in HK in 1922 with his father, Henry Tom Brooks, who had been appointed Superintendent of the Fire Brigade in Hong Kong. Ron arrived from London with his father, mother Emily, and sister Doris and initially they lived at the Kowloon Fire Station.