Edmund Godfrey-Faussett

Edmund Godfrey-Faussett
Granville Walton, Robert Baden-Powell and Edmund Godfrey-Faussett
Born	1869 Kent
Allegiance	British
Rank	Brigadier General
Unit	Royal Engineers
Awards	1914 Star with Clasps and Roses
Other work	Author and vexillologist

Brigadier General Edmund Godfrey Godfrey-Faussett (Kent 1869-), was a career soldier with the Royal Engineers, a vexillologist and official of The Boy Scouts Association.

He was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1880, served with the original British Expeditionary Force in 1914 and earned the 1914 Star with Clasps and Roses, and retired in 1922.

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