Cyril Burney

He was a Batchelor and died intestate. Letters of Administration granted to his father 7 November 1904.

Value of estate £88 - 6 - 8

Educated at the Naval Academy, Gosport

From: "http://www.angloboerwar.com/Other/shipping/190208.htm" accessed 23/12/2007

London Times, 14 Aug 02 (Thursday)

p8c The Aurania left for England Aug 3 with the following on passage home:

1/Imperial Yeomanry ? Lieutenant Colonel E M Percival, Captains E W Thain, R Allsopp, A F V Bowles. Lieutenants L W Grant-Henshaw, H L P Russell, J L Pegg, P Wallace, W H S Leonard, L S Innis, H P Gray, E St G Bowley, L B Bigg, G Tylden, H M Blair, E A Dyer, E H Currie, W V Edwards, Lieutenant & Quartermaster G H Fox, Veterinary Captain J P Spanton, and 229 men

11/Imperial Yeomanry ? Lieutenant Colonel R B Firman, Captains J H Watson, S H Prell, C C Murray, F D J Annesley, G L Johnstone, T Sargent, Lieutenants H E Jamieson, G P Plumptre, C Wright, P Roscorla, W D Butler, W C Cunningham, A E McLean, O Mowatt, E J Malin, S H Sheffield, A C Carey, G H S Lyne, E Parsons, R H Greaves, T E Mereney, H C Fowley, F J Cooke, C Amyatt-Burney, Lieutenant & Quartermaster F Langley and 606 men

From a lengthy article in Kano Studies

A J o u r n a l o f S a v a n n a & S u d a n i c R e s e a r c h

New Series 2000 Volume 1, No 1, 2000

Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria

Page 26

"Generally speaking, this episode could be compared to the British

incursion into neighbouring Igalaland. In the conquest of Ankpa, for

example, the British organised a punitive expedition on 2nd January

1904 following the abortive first attempt in December 1903. The first

had led to the death of Capt. O'Riodan and Mr. Amyatt Burney, the

invaders' two leaders, at the hands of the patriotic local people. As in

Ebiraland, the British organised a heavy retaliatory onslaught

consisting of eleven officials and 262 African rank-and-file with two

guns and two maxims, under the command of Major R.A. Merrick.

The British invasion of Igalaland as in Ebiraland, led to pandamonia,

brigandage and general disaffection. Yet while the resistance lasted

for almost one and half decades in Ebiraland, resistance to British

invasion in Ankpa, according to Abdulkadir, lasted for only three

months (Abdulkadir 1987:16-21)".

From The Times 4th January 1904

Lieutenant CYRiL AMYATT Wise Amyatt-Buney, District Superintendent of Police, Bassa Province, Northem Nigeria, who was reported Iist week to have been killed in that province by the Okpoto tribe, was the son of the Rev. E. A. Amyatt-Burney, rector of Babcary, Somerton, Somerset. Mr. Amyatt-Burney was educated at the Royal Academy, Gosport, and, after leaving school, acquired a thorough practical knowledge of police work in the Glamorganshire Constabulary under Captain Lionel Lindsay. He served in South Africa as a lieutenant in the Imperial Yeomanry, and on the strong recommendation of Lord Methuen was attaheod to the South African Constabulary. Unfortunately, after his nomination to the constabulary, he contracted, for the second time, dysentery, and had to be invalided home from South Africa. A few montbs ago he received the appointment of District Superintendent of Police in Northern Nigeria. under the Colonial Office. A Correspondent states that a force undor the command of Captain O'Riordan, the Resident, left Deckia on December 7 with the objeot of reinstating a tribal King at Akina and ousting a usurper, and it would appear that it vas during this operation or the advance of the force that Mr. Arnyatt-Burney was killed.

From The Times 3rd May 1904

Reuter's Agency is informed that the remains of Lieutenaut C. Amyatt Burney, who was kIlled in an ambnscade in the Bassa province of Northern Nigeria, have been recovered by the punitive expedition and conveyed to Lokoja, where tbey were interred in the cemetery by the Rev. I. D. Aitken, of the Church Missionary Society.