Major General Sir Walter Arthur George Burns, GCVO, CB, DSO, OBE, MC, KStJ (29 January 1911 – 5 May 1997) was a British Army officer and native of Hertfordshire.
[3] His sister was Cynthia Mary Burns, the first wife of Sir John Carew Pole, 12th Baronet.
[6] Through his sister, he was an uncle to Sir Richard Carew Pole, 13th Baronet.
[8] He obtained a commission in the Coldstream Guards in 1932, and served as aide-de-camp to the Viceroy of India, the Marquess of Linlithgow from 1938 to 1940.
In 1962, he was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order and received the colonelcy of the Coldstream, which he held until 1994.