John Grover (British Army officer)

Major-General John Malcolm Lawrence Grover CB MC (6 February 1897–1979) was a British Army officer who commanded 2nd Division in Burma during World War II.

Military career
Grover was commissioned into the King's Shropshire Light Infantry in 1914 and was awarded the Military Cross for his service in World War I. He became Commanding Officer of the 1st Bn King's Shropshire Light Infantry in 1938. He served in World War II as Commander of the 11th Infantry Brigade from 1940 and as General Officer Commanding 2nd Division in Burma from 1941. He devised and implemented a strategy to remove the Japanese from the Kohima region of India leading to the defeat of the Japanese at the Battle of Kohima in April 1944. He went on to be Director of Army Welfare Services at the War Office in 1944 before retiring in 1948.

He became Colonel of The King's Shropshire Light Infantry in 1947.