Major Derek Denny-Brown, New Plymouth, lias been sent by the War Office to Harvard, U.S.A., where he will be attached to Boston City Hospital as Director of the Neurological Unit. He will be attached to several committees engaged in war work. Major Denny-Brown had previously been second in command to Colonel H. W. B. Cairns, the famous brain surgeon, nt St. Hugh’s Military Hospital, Oxford, which was established soon after the outbreak of war. He has had a distinguished career and in 1936 was awarded a Rockefeller Travelling Scholarship for medical research. Mrs. Denny-Brown and their two small sons have accompanied him to America-
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 20, 18 October 1941, Page 8
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