Harold Martin Burrough

Admiral SIR Harold Martin Burrough, G.C.B., K.B.E., D.S.O., Royal Navy (4 July, 1888 – 22 October, 1977) was an officer of the Royal Navy.

First Lieutenant and Gunnery Officer of H.M.S. Indomitable post-Jutland.

Papers

• Papers in the possession of the Imperial War Museum, Catalogue Number 12140 DS/MISC/4

Microfilm copy of a collection of papers consisting of letters, reports, memoranda, articles, transcriptions and presscuttings relating to his service at Jutland, during the Spanish Civil War and in the Second World War, including a report on Demonstrations at Naval Tactical School on the Battle of Jutland (1934); ts remarks on the Battle of Jutland by Admiral of the Fleet the Earl Mountbatten of Burma (19pp, 1967); ts letter written to his mother describing the Battle of Jutland (June 1916); file entitled ‘North Spain 1936 II – Situation Reports, Signals etc, Appreciations’; articles relating to the Malta Convoys of September 1941 and August 1942 and the Vaagso Raid; a printed report written by him on Ocean Escort of Convoy PQ3, Operation ‘AR’ and Ocean Escort of Convoy QP3 (December 1941) and further reports on PQ11, QP8, PQ15, PQ16 and QP12; ts notes for a press conference given by him whilst serving as Allied Naval Commander in Chief, Expeditionary Force (1945) and Germany (1946); and a ts letter from him to Lady Burrough regarding the German surrender (May 1945).

Service Record

• ADM 196/51