[janwhin]

Now not many people may know this but.....Alan Brooke was well known as the Chief of the General Imperial Staff in World War 2, and he was also based in Warkworth for a few years after World War 1.
The reason I know about it? My aunt and her cousin worked for him whilst he lived there and when he moved to the staff college at Camberley in Surrey in 1923, he went to see my grandmother to ask if they could move with him to Surrey. And they did.
My aunt later married his batman and driver, himself a winner of a DCM in the First War, and carried on working for him as his cook at his home in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire. Her husband later became his gardener.
Alan Brooke was appointed to the staff of 50 Northumbrian Division, TA, following a course at Camberley in 1919 and he lived in Warkworth until his return south.