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Years of service
  
1964–1999

Service/branch
  
Rank
  
Major-general


Name
  
David Burden

Allegiance
  
United Kingdom

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Born
  
14 July 1943 (age 81) (
1943-07-14
)

Battles/wars
  
Operation BannerUnited Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus

Awards
  
Order of the Bath, Royal Victorian Order, Order of the British Empire

Battles and wars
  

Asian Carp Panel - David Burden, Central & Arctic Region Fisheries and Oceans Canada


Major General David Leslie Burden (born 14 July 1943) is a British Army officer who went on to be Military Secretary.

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Military career

Burden was commissioned into the Royal Army Service Corps in 1964. He was posted to Germany and to Northern Ireland and transferred to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps under the McLeod Reorganisation of Army Logistics in 1965. He attended the Army Staff College in 1975, the National Defence College in 1981 and the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1988.

In the mid to late 1970s he twice served in the Ministry of Defence and undertook two tours with the Allied Command Mobile Force Land, one in the HQ and one in command of a logistic company. In 1981 he became Chief Personnel and Logistic Officer for the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus and in 1983 he became Commanding Officer of the Ordnance Battalion for 1st Armoured Division. In 1985 he was made Deputy Chief of Staff at Headquarters British Forces Overseas Hong Kong and then Assistant Chief of Staff at Headquarters British Army of the Rhine. In 1991 he became Director General Resettlement in the Ministry of Defence and in 1993 he became the first Director General of the Royal Logistic Corps. In 1996 he was appointed Military Secretary.

On retirement from the Army he served as Receiver General of Westminster Abbey from 1998 until 2008.He is a Consultant to LGS Matrix.

Family

He is married to Sue and they have two daughters, Sophie and Harriet.

References

David Burden Wikipedia


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