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Name: BROWNE, Percival Frederick (Capt.)
Birth Date: 25 Aug 1872 Hyderabad
Death Date: 5 May 1959 Churt, Surrey
First Date: 1908
Last Date: 1929
Profession: With the Uganda Police from 1908-11. From 1911-20 he was Asst. Commissioner, EAP, and was Commissioner of Police and Prisons, Tanganyika Territory from 1920-27
Area: Uganda, Tanganyika, Nairobi
Married: 27 Apr 1904 Ruth Reynolds Warren b. 1880, d. 16 Sep 1957 Blackburn
Children: Nancye Maud (13 June 1905); Patrick Warren (14 Feb 1908-15 Dec 1944); Moya Lennox (1918)
Book Reference: Gillett, HBEA, Police, Red 25, Playne, Red 22, EA & Rhodesia, Leader14, Red Book 1912, Red 19
War Service: Served with SA Constabulary 1900-08
School: Uppingham
General Information:
Police - 1908 - When Brig.-Gen. W.F.S. Edwards came to Nairobi as Inspector General of Police he brought Browne with him as his Staff Officer. He had served previously with the Bombay Staff Corps during the SA War (1899-1902) and with the SA Constabulary from 1906 to 1908. ........ In 1928 Capt. Browne, ex-Staff Officer to the Inspector General of the EA and Uganda Police and later Asst. Commissioner under W.K. Notley, was appointed Commissioner of Police in Tanganyika. Capt. Browne retired in 1929; and he died, aged 87, at Churt in England early in May 1959.
Red 25 - Commissioner of Police and Prisons, Tanganyika Territory; Queen's and King's medals, SA War. King's Police medal. S.A. Constabulary 1900-08; Staff Officer to Inspector-General of Police, EA and Uganda 1908-11; Asst. Commissioner of Police, Kenya 1911-20
Playne - Staff Officer to I.G.P. In 1909
EA & Rhodesia - 14/5/59 - Mr Percy F. Browne has died at Churt, aged 87. He was educated at Uppingham and subsequently joined the Bombay Staff Corps. He served in the South Africa War from 1899 to 1902 and in the South African Constabulary from 1906 to 1908. In the latter year he joined the Kenya Police in which he served until 1920. He then transferred to Tanganyika as Commander of Police and Prisons. He retired in 1929.
Red Book 1912 - P.F. Browne - Lamu
Red Book 1912 - Police Dept. - Asst. Commissioner
Red Book 1919 - Major P F Browne - Asst. Commissioner EA Police - Nairobi