Burney was born in Jersey, son of a Royal Navy Captain. He was educated at the Royal Naval Academy, Gosport and entered HMS Britannia as a Naval Cadet in July 1871. He was promoted Midshipman in October 1873, serving on the Pacific and North American Stations, and was commissioned as a Sub-Lieutenant in October 1877. For the next three years he mainly served ashore, with short periods in the troopship HMS Serapis and the Royal Yacht, where he was promoted Lieutenant on 30 August 1879. He then joined the corvette HMS Carysfort with the Mediterranean Fleet and served ashore in command of a Gatling Gun team at the Battle of Tell al-Mahuta and the Battle of Qassasin in August 1882. In 1882 he also accompanied Sir Charles Warren's expedition in pursuit of the murderers of Professor Palmer and h
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| - Burney was born in Jersey, son of a Royal Navy Captain. He was educated at the Royal Naval Academy, Gosport and entered HMS Britannia as a Naval Cadet in July 1871. He was promoted Midshipman in October 1873, serving on the Pacific and North American Stations, and was commissioned as a Sub-Lieutenant in October 1877. For the next three years he mainly served ashore, with short periods in the troopship HMS Serapis and the Royal Yacht, where he was promoted Lieutenant on 30 August 1879. He then joined the corvette HMS Carysfort with the Mediterranean Fleet and served ashore in command of a Gatling Gun team at the Battle of Tell al-Mahuta and the Battle of Qassasin in August 1882. In 1882 he also accompanied Sir Charles Warren's expedition in pursuit of the murderers of Professor Palmer and h
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| - Burney was born in Jersey, son of a Royal Navy Captain. He was educated at the Royal Naval Academy, Gosport and entered HMS Britannia as a Naval Cadet in July 1871. He was promoted Midshipman in October 1873, serving on the Pacific and North American Stations, and was commissioned as a Sub-Lieutenant in October 1877. For the next three years he mainly served ashore, with short periods in the troopship HMS Serapis and the Royal Yacht, where he was promoted Lieutenant on 30 August 1879. He then joined the corvette HMS Carysfort with the Mediterranean Fleet and served ashore in command of a Gatling Gun team at the Battle of Tell al-Mahuta and the Battle of Qassasin in August 1882. In 1882 he also accompanied Sir Charles Warren's expedition in pursuit of the murderers of Professor Palmer and his associates. In 1884 he served in the operations against Osman Digna near Suakin. The next two years were spent at the gunnery schools at Portsmouth and Devonport, followed by over five years as a gunnery officer with the North American Squadron, Reserve Squadron and Channel Squadron. On 1 January 1893 Burney was promoted Commander and became Executive Officer of the cruiser HMS Hawke with the Mediterranean Fleet. In 1896 he became commanding officer of the boys' training establishment in HMS Boscawen and HMS Minotaur at Portland, being promoted Captain on 1 January 1898. In September 1899 he took command of his old ship HMS Hawke and in 1900 became the captain of HMS Sappho, initially on the North American Station, but soon transferring to the Cape Station for service in the South African War. Sappho struck the Durban bar on 3 May 1901, although she was under the command of a pilot at the time and Burney was not to blame, and returned to the United Kingdom for repairs. In May 1902 Sappho became the flagship of Rear-Admiral George Atkinson-Willes and then Rear-Admiral Edmund Poë in the Home Fleet. In June 1904 Burney transferred to the command of the battleship HMS Triumph and then, in July 1905, to HMS Impregnable as inspecting captain of boys' training ships.
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