[3] As a Quaker educated at the Society of Friends School at Sidcot, he served with a Friends Ambulance Unit in France from 1916 to 1919, and was awarded the Croix de Guerre in 1917 for evacuating six wounded soldiers under heavy fire.
[2]After demobilisation he entered the Middlesex Hospital Medical School and qualified MRCS, LRCP in 1923.
In 1930 he joined David Clark Muir in running a paediatric heart clinic at Hull.
[5] Brown wrote with Evan Bedford the section on congenital heart disease in volume 6 of the British Encyclopaedia of Medical Practice (1937, London, Butterworth & Co., Ltd.).
Brown's book Congenital Heart Disease (1939) was of some importance in the development of cardiac surgery.