C. W. Burrows

C. W. Burrows is a little-documented British author remembered for Scapa and a Camera (1921), a pictorial account of five years spent at the Grand Fleet base in Scapa Flow. Catalog records identify him as being of Lee, England, and the book has remained his best-known surviving work.

What makes Burrows interesting is the blend of memoir and photography in that book. Rather than writing a distant military history, he recorded daily scenes, ships, salvage work, and the surrounding Orkney landscape, giving readers a more personal sense of life around one of the Royal Navy's most important wartime anchorages.

Very little biographical information about him appears to be readily confirmed from major public sources, so most attention naturally falls on the book itself. For readers interested in firsthand naval impressions and early twentieth-century photographic storytelling, Burrows remains an intriguing figure.