Major General Edmund Charles Beard, CB, CBE, MC (21 April 1894 – 20 January 1974) was a British Army officer during the First and Second World Wars and in 1946 was aide-de-camp to the king, George VI.
[1] Beard became assistant adjutant and quartermaster general with the 44th (Home Counties) Division in France with the British Expeditionary Force.
[1] He became commander of the 133rd Infantry Brigade in England in 1940 and, promoted on 1 October 1940, with seniority backdated to 1 July 1938, to colonel,[3] became Brigadier General Staff Home Forces in 1942.
[1] Promoted to major general in 1942, he held an area command in India until 1946 when he retired from the army.
[1] Beard was Colonel of the South Lancashire Regiment from 1948 to 1957 and his eldest son was killed in avtion in Nalaya in 1952.