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A similar cross is also used by the Veterans of Foreign Wars organization. A variant of the Maltese cross, with three V-shaped arms instead of four, was used as the funnel symbol of the Hamburg Atlantic Line and their successors German Atlantic Line and Hanseatic Tours in 1958–1973 and 1991–1997.
The three Classes of the Knights of Malta - official website of the Order of Malta "Sovereign Military Order of Malta in the United Kingdom - Order pro Merito Melitensi" . "Blog containing photographs of Medals, neck crosses and sashs for Knights & Dames" (in Portuguese).
The Flag of Malta displays the George Cross in the upper corner of the hoist. The Cross and the King's message are today found in the National War Museum in Fort Saint Elmo , Valletta . Harrods department store [ 12 ] flew the Maltese flag to mark Malta's 70th anniversary as a George Cross Island [ 13 ] from the 1 to 28 March 2012.
The Cross of Malta is the VFW's official emblem. [13] The cross, radiating rays, and Great Seal of the United States together symbolize the character, vows and purposes distinguishing VFW as an order of warriors who have traveled far from home to defend sacred principles.
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The Malta George Cross Memorial, also known as the Maltese Memorial, is a war memorial in London. It was erected to commemorate the Siege of Malta in the Second World War , which led to the island's being collectively awarded the George Cross in April 1942.
Banners of the order at the Siege of Rhodes (1480), shown as gules a cross argent, and as counter-quarterly gules a cross argent and or a cross ancrée gules (c. 1483). The arms of the Knights Hospitaller were granted in 1130 by Pope Innocent II, for differentiation from the Templars who displayed the reversed colours.
National flag of Malta alongside the flag of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. The flag of Malta (il-bandiera ta' Malta) is a bicolour, with white in the hoist and red in the fly. A representation of the George Cross, awarded to Malta by George VI in 1942, is carried, edged with red, in the canton of the white stripe. [1]