Alfred Higgins Burne DSO (1886–1959) was a soldier and military historian.
Alfred Burne was educated at Winchester College and RMA Woolwich, before being commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1906.
[2] He was Military Editor of Chambers Encyclopedia from 1938 to 1957 and became an authority on the history of land warfare.
[3] Burne lived in Kensington and his funeral was held at St Mary Abbots there.
He himself defined it thus : My method here is to start with what appear to be undisputed facts, then to place myself in the shoes of each commander in turn, and to ask myself in each case what I would have done.