Bryan Godfrey-Faussett the monarch's death in 1936, receiving a promotion on 1 January 1932 to GCVO. During the reign of Edward VIII, he left his post as Equerry-in-Ordinary to become an Extra Equerry, on 21 July 1936. He would remain an Extra Equerry to Edward VIII and George VI until his death in 1945. During the First World War, he served in HMS "Thistle", 1914, and acted as Naval Equerry to King George V, 1915-18. He also worked for a short period in the Paravane Department of the Admiralty, 1917. He continued as Equerry-in-Ordinary to King George V and King Edward VIII
Saint George to the saint in England is a church at Fordington, Dorset that is mentioned in the will of Alfred the Great. Saint George did not rise to the position of "patron saint" of England, however, until the 14th century, and he was still obscured by Edward the Confessor, the traditional patron saint of England, until in 1552 during the reign of Edward VI all saints' banners other than George's were abolished in the English Reformation. Belief in an apparition of St. George heartened the Franks at the Battle of Antioch in 1098, which made a similar appearance the following year