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.
[4] 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.
[5] 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,[6] was promoted to temporary brigadier general in May 1918,[7] and retired from the army in 1922.
[8] Godfrey-Faussett, a personal friend of Robert Baden-Powell,[9][10] became The Boy Scouts Association's Commissioner for training leaders.
[13][14] In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Kingsley C. Dassanaike worked to promote Scouting for the deaf and blind to Godfrey-Faussett.