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Individual and General Recall - Flag X (X-Ray) and First Substitute in the ICS; Disqualified (fotw and CS)
“I Intend to Protest” and “Boat Incurring Penalty” (CS & fotw)
National Flag of Pakistan (fotw); National Flag of
Turkey (fotw); Flag of Sarawak (fotw).
Flag of Tibet (fotw); Flag and Arms of
Zakliczyn, Poland (fotw)
Please note that the vexillogical term for rays spreading out from a central point is radiating – see ‘radiating 1)’.
Arms of Glogów. Poland (fotw); Flag of
Šuto Orizari, Macedonia (fotw); Flag of
Ferden, Switzerland (fotw)
Flag of Arizona, USA (fotw); National Flag of the
Seychelles (fotw); Naval Ensign of
Japan (fotw)
National Flag of China (fotw); National Flag of
Adygea, Russia (fotw)
Please note with regard to 1) that the heraldic term for rays spreading out from a central point is radiant – see ‘radiant’.
Spanish Naval Flag 16-17th C (fotw); Flag of the
Ferrol Squadron 1732-1760, Spain (fotw);
Infantry Colour 1693, Spain (fotw)
Flag and Arms of Riedern, Switzerland (fotw &
Wikipedia);
Flag and Arms of Libkov, Czech Republic (fotw);
Flag of Gloucester, Canada (fotw); Flag of
Damara, Namibia (fotw)
Please note that the rainbow flag was also the symbol of the International Cooperative Movement from 1925 - 2001.
From left: The Current Gay Rights Flag; The Flag of
Cusco, Peru (fotw); National Flag of
South Africa (fotw)
Flag of the International Cooperative Movement 1925 – 2001 (fotw)
Raised Detail on a Ceremonial Flag of San Cristóbal de la Laguna, Tenerife, Spain (Klaus-Michael Schneider)
Flag and Arms of South Holland, The Netherlands (fotw
& ICH);
Royal Banner of Scotland (Graham Bartram);
State Arms and Royal Standard of Norway (fotw);
Owen Glyndwr’s flag, Wales (fotw)
From left: Rank Flags of a Field Marshall, Full General, Lt General, Major
General and a Brigadier General, Thailand
(fotw)
Please note, that although these terms are sometimes considered interchangeable, the Editors have drawn a general distinction between the command flags used by senior naval officers, the rank flags employed by officers from the other armed services, the distinguishing flags of civilians and with personal flags.
From left: Field Marshall UK and Five Star General Army and Marine Corps US (CS)
From left: Commodore Royal Navy and Brigadier Royal Marines UK, Rear Admiral (Lower Half) USN and Brig Gen USAF (CS)
Notes
a) The number of stars range between one and five
dependent upon the rank of the officer concerned.
b)
In US service officers of the army and the
Marine Corps have red plates, whilst those of the USN and USAF have dark blue. In UK service,
however, officers of the army have red, of the RN and Royal Marines dark blue, and of the
RAF light blue (and that there is a combined services plate whose field is of vertical
stripes in dark blue, red and light blue).
State Flag of Ethiopia 1941 – 1974 (fotw); Two Examples of Rastafarian Flags (fotw)
Military Colour c1776 (fotw); Current
Naval Jack, US (Graham Bartram)
Flag of Tibet (fotw)
Flag and Arms of Sřr-Varanger, Norway (fotw); Flag
and Arms of
Berlevĺg, Norway (fotw); Flag and Arms of
Grue, Norway (fotw)
Flag and Arms of Zonnebeke, Belgium (fotw
& Wikipedia);
Čaška, Macedonia (fotw)
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