Harold Brown (Royal Navy officer)

Vice-Admiral Sir Harold Arthur Brown CB KCB GBE (19 March 1878 – 15 February 1968) was an English engineer who served with the Royal Navy.

[1][3] Brown joined the Royal Navy in 1894 as a trainee engineer at the Devonport Dockyards.

He served in Washington as Assistant Naval Attache 1921–1925.

He served as Director-General of Munitions Production, The War Office and retired in 1936.

[1] They are buried together in Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey.

Brown in 1932
The grave of Sir Harold Brown in Brookwood Cemetery in 2018