Education
Eton College.
Eton College.
Educated at Eton College and Oxford University, Burrows was commissioned into the 5th Dragoon Guards. He served in World War I and became a prisoner of war. He was deployed to the Murmansk coast with the North Russia Expeditionary Force in 1918.
In the 1920s he played cricket for Surrey County Cricket Club.
He became Adjutant at Oxford University Officer Training Corps in 1920 and an Instructor at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst in 1922. He became Brigade Major with the Nowshera Infantry Brigade in India in 1928 and then joined 1st Cavalry Brigade at Aldershot in 1930.
He was on the General Staff at the War Office from 1935 to 1938 when he became the Military Attache in Rome. He also served in World World War II as General Officer Commanding 9th Armoured Division in the United Kingdom from December 1940 to March 1942 and of 11th Armoured Division from October 1942 to December 1943.
He was appointed Head of the British Military Mission to the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics in 1944.
After the War he became General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of West Africa Command. He retired in 1946.