Montagu Brocas Burrows

Brocas Burrows
Born	31 October 1894 Reigate, Surrey
Died	17 January 1967 (aged 72) Marylebone, London
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Rank	Lieutenant General
Commands held	9th Armoured Division 11th Armoured Division West Africa Command
Battles/wars	World War I World War II
Awards	Companion of the Order of the Bath Distinguished Service Order Military Cross

Lieutenant General Montagu Brocas Burrows CB DSO MC (31 October 1894 – 17 January 1967) was Commander-in-Chief of West Africa Command of the British Army from 1945 to 1946.

Military career

Educated at Eton College and Oxford University,^[1] Burrows was commissioned into the 5th Dragoon Guards.^[2]

He served in World War I and became a prisoner of war.^[1] He was deployed to the Murmansk coast with the North Russia Expeditionary Force in 1918.^[2] In the 1920s he played cricket for Surrey County Cricket Club.^[1]

He became Adjutant at Oxford University Officer Training Corps in 1920 and an Instructor at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst in 1922.^[2] He became Brigade Major with the Nowshera Infantry Brigade in India in 1928 and then joined 1st Cavalry Brigade at Aldershot in 1930.^[2] He was on the General Staff at the War Office from 1935 to 1938 when he became the Military Attache in Rome.^[2]

He also served in World War II as General Officer Commanding 9th Armoured Division in the UK from December 1940 to March 1942^[3] and of 11th Armoured Division from October 1942 to December 1943; he was appointed Head of the British Military Mission to the USSR in 1944.^[2]

After the War he became General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of West Africa Command; he retired in 1946.^[2]

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