Education
He attended the Army Staff College in 1975, the National Defence College in 1981 and the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1988.
army officer deputy chief Burden Central Bank
He attended the Army Staff College in 1975, the National Defence College in 1981 and the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1988.
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. 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 Headquarters and one in command of a logistic company.
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 1991 he became Director General Resettlement in the Ministry of Defence and in 1992 he became the first Director General of the Royal Logistic Corps. In 1995 he was appointed Military Secretary.
On retirement from the Army he became Receiver General of Westminster Abbey. He is a Consultant to LGS Matrix.