Nevil Brownjohn

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.

A graduate of Malvern College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Brownjohn was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in April 1915 and served in France and Palestine in the First World War, and was awarded the Military Cross in 1917. He attended the Staff College, Camberley from 1931 to 1932. During the Second World War he rose to the rank of major general, and was the Deputy Chief of Staff (G-4) in charge of logistics at General Dwight D. Eisenhower's SHAEF, and was Deputy Quartermaster-General in the Middle East.

After the war he took charge of Administration for the British Army of the Rhine and then joined the Control Commission (British Sector) for Germany in 1947. He became Vice Quartermaster General at the War Office in 1949 and Vice Chief of Imperial General Staff in 1950. He was Chief Staff Officer at the Ministry of Defence from 1952 to 1955 when he became Quartermaster-General to the Forces.