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Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund Burd was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment in 1899. He was immediately sent to India to join his regiment and transfered to the Indian Army on 16 May, 1904. He was a member of the 93rd Burma Infantry, raised on the 85th Burma Rifles in 1917, and then commanded the 3rd Battalion 70th Burma Rifles and the renumbered 3rd Battalion 20th Burma Rifles in 1922. He retired in 1926.