Edmund Godfrey-Faussett
Birth nameEdmund Godfrey Godfrey-Faussett[1]
Born25 August 1868[2]
Canterbury, Kent, England
Died29 May 1942(1942-05-29) (aged 73)
Hadlow Down, Kent, England
AllegianceBritish
RankBrigadier General
UnitRoyal Engineers
Awards1914 Star with Clasps and Roses
Other workAuthor and vexillologist

Brigadier General Edmund Godfrey Godfrey-Faussett 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.

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, 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.[3] 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.[4]

He served with the original British Expeditionary Force in 1914 and earned the 1914 Star with Clasps and Roses, and retired in 1922.[5]

Godfrey-Faussett, a personal friend of Robert Baden-Powell,[6][7] became The Boy Scouts Association's Commissioner for training leaders.[8] He led The Boy Scouts Association contingent at the 4th World Scout Jamboree in Hungary.[9] In the 1930s he wrote Flags: Their Design and Use. A Handbook For Scouts, Guides and Others.[10][11] In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Kingsley C. Dassanaike worked to promote Scouting for the deaf and blind to Godfrey-Faussett.[12]

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.[13]

References

  1. ↑ THE LONDON GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 24, 1888Archived 2 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ UK, British Army Records and Lists, 1882–1962
  3. ↑ Hart′s army list, 1903
  4. ↑ "The Army in South Africa - Troops returning Home". The Times. No. 36885. London. 29 September 1902. p. 8.
  5. ↑ Archives, The National. "The National Archives - Homepage".
  6. ↑ GODFREY-FAUSSETT SCRAPBOOK 1924-1929 Scout Association - Discovery - The National Archives
  7. ↑ "1931-01-01 - Scout - Faussett - findmypast.co.uk". search.findmypast.co.uk.
  8. ↑ Scouting As A Cocurricular by T.C. Sharma p. 89
  9. ↑ trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/8054055 21 Apr 1932 - The Daily News - p2 - Trove
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ John S. Wilson (1959), Scouting Round the World. First edition, Blandford Press. p. 79
  12. ↑ D.C.O.T. Ameresekere (1969), Fifty Years in Scout Service. Sri Lanka Scout Association. p. 1
  13. ↑ "Late Brig.-Gen. E. G. Godfrey-Faussett". Sevenoaks Chronicle. 5 June 1942. p. 6. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
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