Albion Earnest Andrews

Colonel Albion Earnest Andrews, OBE was the 6th Commander of the Ceylon Defence Force. He was appointed on 9 February 1927 until 14 December 1928. He was succeeded by the acting G. B. Stevens.
Andrews was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the 3rd (Royal Denbigh and Flint Militia) Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers in March 1896. He transferred to a Regular Army commission in the Hampshire Regiment in May 1898, and was promoted to lieutenant on 22 October 1899. He served with the 1st Battalion of the regiment, was for a time seconded, but was back as a regular lieutenant in his regiment in October 1902.
During the First World War, he served with the 11th Royal Sussex Regiment and the Hampshire Regiment.