John Charter mentions that Bunny did not become a lieutenant until hostilities broke out. So in any records prior to the start of hostilities his rank would not be shown as lieutenant.
Lieutenant Horace Wilfred 'Bunny' Browne was a member of the Financial Adviser and Army Audit Staff in Hong Kong - a group of War Office civilian staff under the permanent under-secretary for war attached to, but independent from, the military headquarters.
Source - Reduced to a Symbolic Scale: The Evacuation of British Women and Children to Australia in 1940 by Tony Banham.
Thanks for tracking him down. He was Charter's best man, so I looked in the newspapers to see if he was named in the report on the wedding. One didn't mention the best man at all, and the other said he was "B. Brown", so no help there!
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Bunny Browne
This is the entry on http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/searchgarrison/supportingunits.html for this man:
Browne, ‘Bunny’ H.W.[13] Lieutenant General List
It lists him under the Financial Advisor & Army Audit Staff.
Tony Banham has a note that ''Browne contributed to this book.", so Browne survived the war.
H W Brown/ H W Browne
So there were two persons named H W Brown in the HKVDC?
Brown & Browne
Mr Harold Wilson Brown was a Sergeant in the HKVDC, and died on 17 Dec 1941. I've made a page for him at: https://gwulo.com/node/57326
'Bunny' Browne isn't mentioned in the list of HKVDC prisoners, so I guess he was a regular soldier. He survived the war.
Bunny Browne is mentioned several times in John Charter's wartime diary, but Charter only refers to him by his nickname Bunny.
Henry W Browne Bunny
Could he have been Henry Davenport Browne ?
Browne's rank
John Charter mentions that Bunny did not become a lieutenant until hostilities broke out. So in any records prior to the start of hostilities his rank would not be shown as lieutenant.
Re: H. W. 'Bunny' Browne
Lieutenant Horace Wilfred 'Bunny' Browne was a member of the Financial Adviser and Army Audit Staff in Hong Kong - a group of War Office civilian staff under the permanent under-secretary for war attached to, but independent from, the military headquarters.
Source - Reduced to a Symbolic Scale: The Evacuation of British Women and Children to Australia in 1940 by Tony Banham.
Horace Wilfred Browne 29 November 1917 - 2 December 2010
From Japanese Cards
Lieutenant Horace Wilfred Browne born 29 November 1917 London
Regiment HQ Staff China Command
Father Mr H D C Browne All Saints Vicarage Newmarket Suffolk
Mother Florence Browne
Marriage 1949 Southend on Sea
Horace W Browne to Patricia M S Worster
Passenger List 1951 Singapore to Southampton
H W Browne 33 civil servant 32 Elderton Road Westcliff on Sea Essex
Patricia Browne 22
Electoral Register 2002 - 2006 14 Victoria Road Southampton Hampshire
Horace W Browne Company Director 65+
Patricia M Browne
Government Probate and Death Index (Find My Past)
Horace W Brown died 2 December 2010 in Hampshire
Horace Wilfred Browne
Thanks for tracking him down. He was Charter's best man, so I looked in the newspapers to see if he was named in the report on the wedding. One didn't mention the best man at all, and the other said he was "B. Brown", so no help there!
B Browne
It sounds like everyone knew him as Bunny and not Horace.
Bunny Brown
There are some 20 references to Horace Wilfred (Bunny) Browne in the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club history "Eastern Waters - Eastern Winds", accessible at this link on the Club's website: https://www.rhkyc.org.hk/upload/AboutRHKYC/History/Eastern-Waters-Easter...