Russell Adam Burnham, is an American business owner, Physician Assistant and U.S. Army veteran. Burnham was recognized as the 2003 U.S. Army Soldier of the Year, 2007 U.S. Army Medical Corps NCO of the Year, and is an Eagle Scout. He is the great-grandson of Frederick Russell Burnham (1861–1947), recipient of the Distinguished Service Order, and famous American scout and world-traveling adventurer who helped inspire the founding of the international Scouting Movement.
MAJ Russell Burnham, Afghanistan, 2019
Spc. Russell A. Burnham, right, receives U.S. Army Soldier of the Year Award (2003)
Staff Sgt Burnham, U.S. Army Medical Corps NCO of the Year (2007)
Captain Burnham, receives U.S. Army inaugural Ditch Medicine Award. Afghanistan, 2014.
Frederick Russell Burnham
Frederick Russell Burnham DSO was an American scout and world-traveling adventurer. He is known for his service to the British South Africa Company and to the British Army in colonial Africa, and for teaching woodcraft to Robert Baden-Powell in Rhodesia. Burnham helped inspire the founding of the international Scouting Movement.
Major Burnham in his British Army uniform in 1901
Burnham in Arizona Territory in 1881
The six-shooter Burnham purchased as a teenager in Prescott, Arizona, which he kept all his life and later used in Rhodesia, East Africa and Mexico
Bob Bain; Burnham (middle) during the First Matabele War in 1893, holding his Winchester model 1873 .44WCF rifle; Maurice Gifford