Major General Lancelot Edgar Connop Mervyn Perowne, CB, CBE (11 June 1902 – 24 March 1982) was a British Army officer who commanded the 17th Gurkha Division during the Malayan Emergency.
[1] He later claimed that, while stationed in Burma, he attached the severed, boiled head of a Japanese soldier to his knapsack to ward off snipers.
[3] As commander of the 23rd Brigade he fought a successful campaign in the Naga hills.
[1] After the war Perowne became commander of the Penang Sub-Area and of the 74th Indian Infantry Brigade in Malaya.
[1][5] Perowne served as an adviser on military matters during the production of The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957).