Edmund Godfrey-Faussett
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| birth_date = 25 August 1868UK, British Army Records and Lists, 1882–1962
| birth_place = Canterbury, Kent, England
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Brigadier General Edmund Godfrey Godfrey-Faussett {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CB|CMG|FSA}} (25 August 1868 – 29 May 1942) was a British career soldier with the Royal Engineers, a vexillologist and official of The Boy Scouts Association.
Military career
Godfrey-Faussett was born in Canterbury, the son of the antiquary Thomas Godfrey Faussett.
He was commissioned into the Royal Engineers as a second lieutenant on 17 February 1888,{{London Gazette|issue=25790|page=1225|date=24 February 1888}} was promoted to lieutenant on 17 February 1891, and to captain on 1 September 1898. He served in South Africa during the Second Boer War, attached to the Telegraph battalion, where he took part in the advance and Relief of Kimberley (October 1899 to February 1900), then served in the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic. Following the occupation of Transvaal, he was Director of Transvaal Telegraphs. For his services, he received the brevet rank of major on 29 November 1900.Hart′s army list, 1903 Following the end of the war in June 1902, he returned home with other men of his division on the SS Pinemore, arriving at Southampton in October that year to be posted at Aldershot.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Army in South Africa - Troops returning Home|date=29 September 1902 |page=8 |issue=36885}}
He served with the original British Expeditionary Force in 1914 and earned the 1914 Star with Clasps and Roses, as well as the CMG in February 1915,{{London Gazette|issue=29074|page=1690|date=16 February 1915|supp=y}} was promoted to temporary brigadier general in May 1918,{{London Gazette|issue=30686|page=5837|date=14 May 1918|supp=y}} and retired from the army in 1922.{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/british-army-medal-index-cards-1914-1920/|title=The National Archives - Homepage|first=The National|last=Archives|publisher=}}
Godfrey-Faussett, a personal friend of Robert Baden-Powell,[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/download/GB2253%20TC GODFREY-FAUSSETT SCRAPBOOK 1924-1929 Scout Association - Discovery - The National Archives]{{cite web|url=https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search/british-newspapers?date=1931-01-01&date_offsetdate=1931-12-31&lastname=faussett&keywords=scout|title=1931-01-01 - Scout - Faussett - findmypast.co.uk|website=search.findmypast.co.uk}} became The Boy Scouts Association's Commissioner for training leaders.Scouting As A Cocurricular by T.C. Sharma p. 89
He led The Boy Scouts Association contingent at the 4th World Scout Jamboree in Hungary.trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/8054055 21 Apr 1932 - The Daily News - p2 - Trove In the 1930s he wrote Flags: Their Design and Use. A Handbook For Scouts, Guides and Others.{{cite book|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Flags-Design-handbook-scouts-guides/dp/B000X8T5CI/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256410004&sr=1-4|title=FLAGS: THEIR DESIGN AND USE. A HANDBOOK FOR SCOUTS, GUIDES AND OTHERS: Amazon.co.uk: Edmund Godfrey Godfrey Faussett: Books|via=www.amazon.co.uk}}John S. Wilson (1959), Scouting Round the World. First edition, Blandford Press. p. 79 In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Kingsley C. Dassanaike worked to promote Scouting for the deaf and blind to Godfrey-Faussett.D.C.O.T. Ameresekere (1969), Fifty Years in Scout Service. Sri Lanka Scout Association. p. 1
In 1897, he married Mabel Gertrude Hemming, daughter of Sir Augustus Hemming, and they had a son and daughter. He died suddenly in 1942 at his home in Annes, Hadlow Down, Kent.{{cite news |title=Late Brig.-Gen. E. G. Godfrey-Faussett |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/808313977/?article=0885ff97-8e77-4b07-9026-d6694a86dd10&focus=0.53276765,0.029939504,0.6407893,0.19673985&xid=3355 |access-date=10 October 2023 |work=Sevenoaks Chronicle |date=5 June 1942 |page=6 |language=en |url-access=subscription}}
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