He served as a flight instructor, aerobatic pilot, and officer in the Royal Air Force until his death in 1939 in an aircraft collision over Tilmanstone.

[8] At the 1933 Cinque Ports Wakefield Cup Race, Brown "flew in the craziest manner possible in the Avro 504 (Bristol Lucifer).

[13] Brown and two others were killed instantly (his pupil, Donovon William Alan Pragnell, of St. Martin's, Stodmarsh Road, Canterbury and Pilot officer David Curig Lewis RAFVR, of Porthkerry, near Barry, Glamorgan, sole occupant of the Hind).

[14] The Hind was on a map-reading exercise between Dover and Dymchurch when its tail was struck from above and behind by the Moth, which landed 200 yards (180 m) from its engine and was damaged beyond repair.

Alexander Robert Ramsay, of Woodlands Cottage, Adisham, Manager of Air Sales and Service, Ltd., proprietors of the Kent Flying Club, Bekesbourne, identified the bodies of Brown and Pragnell.

Frederick Lionel Benbow Hebbert, Wing Commander, Royal Air Force, stationed at Lympne Airport, identified the body of Lewis.