Major General Michael Brown

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, Director of Army Medicine and

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Biography

Born in

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, on 17 January 1931, Michael Brown was educated at

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and at

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. He became a regular

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officer in 1956 and was

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at the

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between 1966 and 1981. He was posted to military hospitals in

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and

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, where he co-authored a major paper on

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. He was elected to the Fellowship of the

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in 1976 and appointed as Professor of Military Medicine at the

and at the

between 1981 and 1985. He was

to the

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between 1985 and 1988, Director of Army Medicine and

between 1988 and 1990, and a

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between 1991 and 1993. Major General Michael Brown died in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, Michael 1931 births 1993 deaths People educated at Bedford School Alumni of the UCL Medical School Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians 20th-century English medical doctors