Harold Burrough
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Sir Harold Martin Burrough (1888-1977) was a British admiral and Assistant Chief of Naval Staff to the Royal Navy during World War II.
A lifelong member of the Admiralty, Burrough first saw action during World War I as a gunnery officer aboard the HMS Southampton, later taking part in the Battle of Jutland in 1916. By the early 1930s, Burrough had held several commands including the HMS London, the 5th Destroyer Flotilla, and the HMS Excellent before becoming as Assistant Chief of Naval Staff. Burrough would serve on the Naval Staff for two years following Great Britain’s entry into WWII until 1942 when he was placed in command of Allied naval forces in the assault on Algiers during Operation Torch as well as directing the Northwest Africa landings. After his appointment Flag Officer Commanding Gibraltar and Mediterranean Approaches, Burrough succeeded Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay as naval commander-in-chief of the Allied Expeditionary Army, following Ramsey’s death after an aircraft accident. Planning the Allied naval strategy and operations and during the final years of the war, Burrough would remain as naval commander occupying post-war Germany, and later The Nore, before his retirement in 1949.
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- Parrish, Thomas and S. L. A. Marshall, ed. The Simon and Schuster Encyclopedia of World War II, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978.
