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A White Ensign with a pre-1801 Union Flag in the canton, defaced with a blue lighthouse in the fly, is the only British flag to still use the pre-1801 Union Flag. [28] This flag is only flown from vessels with the Commissioners aboard and from the Headquarters of the NLB, in Edinburgh .
The flag is closely associated with Empire Day and the British Empire Exhibition. It was also used at certain sites dedicated to the First World War, such as the Dangarsleigh War Memorial, and flown throughout the Second World War as a symbol of imperial unity.
[10] 1921– British Empire flag of the Dangarsleigh War Memorial: An unofficial flag of the British Empire featuring its constituent dominions and India. A unique design was featured at the 1921 opening of the Dangarsleigh War Memorial, and it is still sometimes flown today on special occasions. [11] Post 1930–c. 1945: British Empire flag
A flag divided from top-left to bottom-right by a white line, with a white cuckoo on black in the hoist, and a white tower (defaced with a green key) on green in the fly. 2011: Flag of Kingswinford reg (Town, West Midlands) 2013: Flag of Newbury reg (Town, Berkshire) 2009: Flag of Newton Abbot (Town and civil parish, Devon)
The flag has three horizontal bands: light blue at the top, black at the centre, and white at the bottom. Digbeth's Irish heritage and the sky are represented by light blue, the ancient heraldic colour of Ireland. There are four white semicircles in the black band, reminiscent of the Victorian railway viaduct that ran through Digbeth.
An exception is the commissioners' flag of the Northern Lighthouse Board, whose old stock lasted so long that its anachronistic design became fixed by tradition. [10] The old flag has been included in some later designs to mark a pre-1801 British connection, as with the coat of arms of the Colony of Sierra Leone adopted in 1914 [11] or the flag ...
The flag proportions on land and the war flag used by the British Army have the proportions 3:5. [1] The flag's height-to-length proportions at sea are 1:2. [2] The Union Flag also features in the canton of the flags of the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force, and the British Merchant Navy. These flags are known as ensigns.
The flag of England is the national flag of England, a constituent country of the United Kingdom. It is derived from Saint George's Cross (heraldic blazon: Argent, a cross gules). The association of the red cross as an emblem of England can be traced back to the Late Middle Ages when it was gradually, increasingly, used alongside the Royal Banner.