Frank Arthur Brock

Wing Commander Frank Arthur Brock OBE was a British officer of the Royal Naval Air Service who devised and executed the smoke screen used during the Zeebrugge Raid onApril 1918, in the British Royal Navys attempt to neutralize the key Belgian port of BrugesZeebrugge during the First World War.

Brock was born in Cheam, Surrey, the son of Arthur Brock of Haredon, Sutton, Surrey, of the famous C.T. Brock amp Co. fireworks manufacturers. He was educated at Dulwich College where he blew up a stove in his form room. Brock joined the family business in 1901 where he remained until the outbreak of the First World War.

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