Lieutenant-General Sir Edmund Fortescue Gerard Burton KBE (born 20 October 1943) is a former

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officer who became Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Systems).

Military career

Educated at

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and

Trinity Hall, Cambridge Trinity Hall (formally The College or Hall of the Holy Trinity in the University of Cambridge) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It is the fifth-oldest surviving college of the university, having been founded in 1350 by ...

, Burton was commissioned into the

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in 1963.'' Who's Who 2010'', A & C Black, 2010, He served as commanding officer of 27 Regiment RA before become

Commander, Royal Artillery {{Redirect, BGRA, colour format, RGBA color model Commander, Royal Artillery (CRA) was a military appointment in Commonwealth infantry and armoured divisions in the 20th century. The CRA was the senior artillery officer in the division and commanded ...

for

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in 1987. He became military

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in Washington D. C. in 1990, Commandant of the

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in 1991 and

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Operational Requirements (Land) in 1994. He went on to be Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Systems) in 1997 and retired in 2000.

Later career

In retirement he became chairman of the former

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, and was the Chairman of the Information Assurance Advisory Council for many years, until March 2017. He remains the Chair of the Advisory Committee on Trustworthy Software (ACTS)., retrieved 2017-04-20

References

, - {{DEFAULTSORT:Burton, Edmund 1943 births British Army lieutenant generals Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire Royal Artillery officers Living people Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge People educated at Cheltenham College British military attachés