Lieutenant General Montagu Brocas Burrows, CB, DSO, MC (31 October 1894 – 17 January 1967) was a British Army officer who served in both world wars and became Commander-in-Chief of West Africa Command from 1945 to 1946.
[1][3] Burrows was deployed to the Murmansk coast with the North Russia Expeditionary Force during the Russian Civil War in 1918.
[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][3][6] Burrows also served in the Second World War, initially still as a military attaché in Italy, before returning to the United Kingdom in May 1940 and, after being promoted to the acting rank of brigadier, was given command of the 1st Motor Machine Gun Brigade, which became the 26th Armoured Brigade in October.
[2][10][6] After the war Burrows became General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of West Africa Command; he retired in 1946.