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Archibald Frederick Brown
Catalogue reference: CCS/AFB
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- Archibald Frederick Brown
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- Cambridge University Library: Charles Close Society Archives
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Born in 1897, Brown entered the Royal Engineers in 1913, served with distinction as a sapper in the First World War, then as a surveyor on the Germany-Belgium Boundary Commission and later in West Africa. He was Assistant Superintendent of the Proving Section in the Ordnance Survey in 1951, retiring in 1962. The archive holds a small collection of his personal papers - photographs, his Army Council certificates of education, passports, diplomatic papers relevant to his work in Belgium, pay book, soldier's small book.
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Archibald Frederick Brown