General Sir Nevil Charles Dowell Brownjohn, GBE, KCB, CMG, MC (25 July 1897 – 21 April 1973) was a senior British Army officer who served as Quartermaster-General to the Forces from 1956 until his retirement in 1958.

[3][4] Brownjohn was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in April 1915,[5] and served with its Signals branch in the First World War in France and Palestine, where he was awarded the Military Cross in 1917.

[3][2] After attending the Staff College, Camberley from 1931 to 1932,[3] where he graduated with an "A" grading,[4] Brownjohn was posted to the War Office as a GSO3 on 1 April 1934.

[4] He became an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on 1 July 1941 in the 1941 Birthday Honours,[14] and was promoted to the substantive rank of colonel 18 September 1941, with seniority backdated to 1 January 1941.

[22] He was awarded the American Legion of Merit on 17 October 1946 and the American Presidential Medal of Freedom with Silver Palm on 14 May 1948 [23][24] After the war Brownjohn took charge of Administration for the British Army of the Rhine, and then in 1947 he joined the Allied Control Commission (British Sector) for Germany, where his fluency in French and Russian was put to use.

[33] He became colonel commandant of the Royal Engineers on 31 January 1955,[34] a position he held until he retired from the Army on 29 November 1958.

[35] He was created a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in the 1957 Birthday Honours on 13 June 1957.

[3] After retiring from the Army, he became the Chairman of the Crawley Development Corporation and a Member of the Commission for the New Towns, posts he held until he was 69.