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Born 11 November 1870 at Bridge the son of Dr Benjamin Browning and Mary Frances Dansey. Married Florence Lilian Stoddart on 25 September 1907 in Westminster. Died 2 February 1941 in Sidmouth, Devon
Obituary from the British Medical Journal
Colonel GEORGE DANSEY-BROWNING, C.B.E., died at Sidmouth on February 2, and the following account of his career has been sent by Major-General Sir G. Guise Moores, K.C.B.:
George Dansey-Browning was a fine type of Army medical officer, one who gave to the end of his days a full devotion to the soldier and his interests. Born in 1870, he was educated at the Lycee l'Orient, Rennes, and the University of Paris. He was an accomplished' French scholar. Dansey-Browning was a student of Westminster Hospital, taking the diplomas of M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.; he then in 1894 joined the R.A.M.C. by open competition. It is difficult to recall any period of his forty-five years' work for the Army in which he found a respite from his labours. At his homecomings in his early career from India. China (medal), Egypt (medal and Order of Osmanieh), he occupied his leisure and leave in taking the diplomas of D.P.H., D.T.M., and the M.R.C.P.
While in Egypt he served on the Sudan sleeping sickness commission During the last war Dansey-Browning was appointed M.O.H., Gibraltar. His investigations were chiefly concerned with diseases incidental to a Mediterranean garrison and those brought in by the varied and shifting population of a great maritime port. For his services he was awarded the C.B.E. and the French medal for epidemics. The war over, he went to India as A.D.M.S. of the Meerut and Lucknow Divisions, and retired in 1922. Then followed an appointment as director of the newly formed Enham Village Centre for disabled soldiers This accomplished, Dansey-Browning elected to take a retired pay billet as medical officer to the R.E. training camp at Longmoor; here he gave up all else in unstinted devotion to the soldier and his family. He formed centres for dealing with the welfare of mother and child with outstanding merit and success. The age limit stepped in and his work at Longmoor ended, but his love of his profession enabled him to carry on in London at the Regent's Park Barracks, and at the oncoming of the new war in 1939 with the Irish Guards Training Battalion.
In December last the physical ills that flesh is heir to beca'me manifest and the labourer's task was o'er, though undaunted was the spirit. Dansey's ways were ways of gentleness, with the simple piety of devotion to the sick and needy, and he will be long remembered as a well-tried, and beloved physician.
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