Montagu Brocas Burrows

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Brocas Burrows
Mentioned in Despatches
(2)

Commander-in-Chief of West Africa Command
from 1945 to 1946.

Early life

Montagu Brocas Burrows was born on 31 October 1894 in Reigate, Surrey, the son of Stephen Montagu Burrows and Isabella Christina (née Cruickshank). He was educated at Eton College and the University of Oxford.[1]

Military career

Burrows was

First World War and became a prisoner of war during the Great Retreat.[1][3] Burrows was deployed to the Murmansk coast with the North Russia Expeditionary Force during the Russian Civil War in 1918.[2] In the 1920s he played cricket for Surrey County Cricket Club.[1][3]

Burrows remained in the army and continued to serve during the interwar period; he became adjutant at Oxford University Officers' Training Corps in 1920, was promoted to captain on 1 May that year,[4] and became an instructor at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in 1922.[2] After attending the Staff College, Camberley from 1925 to 1926, he became brigade major with the Nowshera Infantry Brigade in India in 1928, before taking over from Willoughby Norrie as brigade major of the 1st Cavalry Brigade at Aldershot in April 1930.[2][5] He was on the General Staff at the War Office from 1935 to 1938, when he became the military attaché in Rome.[2][3][6]

Burrows also served in the

General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the newly raised 9th Armoured Division, for which he was promoted to acting major general on 1 December 1940.[7][6] He remained in command of the division until March 1942, when he was succeeded by Major General Brian Horrocks.[8] During this period he led Brocforce comprising the 9th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, two companies of artillery and a Pioneer battalion.[9] After becoming GOC of the 2nd Armoured Group in South-Eastern Command, he was subsequently GOC 11th Armoured Division from October 1942 to December 1943 before being appointed Head of the British Military Mission to the Soviet Union in 1944.[2][10][6]

After the war Burrows became General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of West Africa Command; he retired in 1946.[2][3][6]

Death

Burrows died on 17 January 1967 in Marylebone, London.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Cricket Info
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
  3. ^ a b c d Smart 2005, p. 52.
  4. ^ "No. 31979". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 July 1920. p. 7542.
  5. ^ "No. 33602". The London Gazette. 2 May 1930. p. 2721.
  6. ^ a b c d e "Biography of Lieutenant-General Montagu Brocas Burrows (1894–1967), Great Britain". generals.dk.
  7. ^ "No. 35259". The London Gazette (Supplement). 26 August 1941. p. 5006.
  8. ^ Escape to Action by Sir Brian Horrocks, Page 100 St. Martin's Press, 1961
  9. ^ Daniel 1957, p. 108.
  10. ^ Smart 2005, p. 207.

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