| Honorific Prefix: | Colonel |
| Albion Earnest Andrews | |
| Birth Date: | 16 June 1877[1] |
| Death Date: | [2] |
| Birth Place: | Wells, Somerset, England[3] |
| Death Place: | Chertsey, Surrey, England |
| Allegiance: | British Ceylon |
| Branch: | Ceylon Defence Force |
| Rank: | Colonel |
| Unit: | Hampshire Regiment |
| Commands: | Commander of the Ceylon Defence Force |
Colonel Albion Earnest Andrews, OBE (16 June 1877 – 14 December 1928) 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.[4]
Andrews was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the 3rd (Royal Denbigh and Flint Militia) Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers (later the Royal Welch Fusiliers) in March 1896. He transferred to a Regular Army commission in the Hampshire Regiment (later the Royal Hampshire Regiment) in May 1898, and was promoted to lieutenant on 22 October 1899.[5] 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.[6]