Major General David Leslie Burden, (born 14 July 1943) is a former

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officer who served as Military Secretary from 1997 to 1999, and

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Military career

Burden was educated at

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and commissioned into the

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in 1964.''

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, 2010, He was posted to Germany and to Northern Ireland and transferred to the

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under the

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in 1965. He attended the Army Staff College in 1975, the National Defence College in 1981 and the

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in 1988. In the mid to late 1970s Burden twice served in the

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and undertook two tours with the Allied Command Mobile Force Land, one in the headquarters and one in command of a logistic company. In 1981 he became Chief Personnel and Logistic Officer for the

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and in 1983 he became

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of the Ordnance Battalion for 1st Armoured Division. In 1985 he was made Deputy

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at Headquarters

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and in 1989 he became Assistant Chief of Staff at Headquarters

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. In 1991 he became Director General Resettlement in the

and in 1992 he became the first Director General of the

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. In 1997 he was appointed Military Secretary. On retirement from the Army Burden served as Receiver General of

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from 1998 until 2008.Luncheon: retirement of Major General David Burden, CB, CBE
The Times, 3 November 2008

Family

Burden is married to Susan and they have two daughters.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Burden, David 1943 births Graduates of the Staff College, Camberley Graduates of the Royal College of Defence Studies British Army major generals British military personnel of The Troubles (Northern Ireland) Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order Companions of the Order of the Bath Living people People educated at The Portsmouth Grammar School Royal Army Service Corps officers Royal Army Ordnance Corps officers