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References
- ↑ Supplement issue 34768 The London Gazette. 9 January 1940
- 1 2 "Catalogue description Name: Arthur Tillotson Brown . Rank: Captain (Retired) Date of Seniority: 10 April".
- ↑ The Navy List, Admiralty, London, July 1908, page 493a.
- ↑ Admiralty, Great Britain (1908). "The Navy List".
- ↑ The London Gazette, 15 December 1908, p. 9559.
- ↑ Royal Naval Reserve The London Gazette
- ↑ The Navy List, Admiralty, London, August 1917, page 397w.
- ↑ "Catalogue description Name: Arthur Tillotson Brown . Rank: Lieutenant Commander . Date of Seniority: 1918".
- ↑ The Navy List, Admiralty, London, August 1939, page 894.
- ↑ Royal naval reserve. Retired officers
- ↑ "RMS Mauretania 2 - 1938 to 1965".
