Edward M. Flint


Edward Michael Flint is a former Signal Officer in Chief of the British Army.

Military career

Educated at St Albans School, and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, Flint was commissioned into the Royal Corps of Signals in 1979.
In 2004 he was appointed as Director Defence Logistic Information at the Defence Logistics Organisation. He moved in 2006 to the Defence College of Communications and Information Systems where he took up the appointment of Commandant.
In 2007 he became Signal Officer in Chief, the head of the Royal Corps of Signals. After three years in this appointment he attended the Royal College of Defence Studies. On leaving the College he became Chief of Staff of the Support Command Planning Team.
He was, until 2018, a Colonel Commandant of the Royal Corps of Signals, and is Chair of the Trustees of the Royal Signals Museum.