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“England Expects That Every Man Will Do His D-u-t-y” in
Popham’s Code as amended in 1803 (fotw), and Nelson’s signal before the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805
ZD2 (Zulu-Delta-2) in The International Code of Signal Flags or
“Please Report Me to Lloyds, London” (fotw)
Notes
a) A “maniple” was one-third of a cohort (which was itself one-tenth
of a legion) and in the first Century AD a standard maniple would consist of about 160 men.
b) Signum is the Latin for “sign” as semeion was in classical Greek
(see also ‘semeion’).
Silk/Company Colour, No 1 Company, 1st Battalion of The Irish Guards, UK (Graham Bartram)
Civil Flag of Burgenland, Austria (fotw); Flag of
Rome, Italy (fotw)
Flag of Herzele, Belgium (fotw)
Flag of
Khashuri, Georgia (fotw)
The Flag Institute 1971 – 2016, UK (fotw)
National Flag of Czechia (fotw)
National Flag of Peru (fotw); National Flag of
Austria (fotw)
National Flag of Italy (fotw); National Flag of
Hungary (fotw)
(fotw)
Flag used by the 1875 Expedition to the North Pole
(fotw); Flag used on Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Expedition to the Antarctic (fotw)
Please note that the increasingly (but by no means entirely) obsolete
practice of fixing a flag to its pole or staff by a series of attached loops is almost certainly based
on the earlier use of ties – see ‘loops’
(also ‘ring 4)’ and
‘ties’).
Queen’s Colour, The 28th Regiment of Foot
(North Gloucestershire Regiment), UK c1880 (fotw);
Regimental Colour The Gloucester Regiment 1952, UK (fotw)
Flag of Mägenwil, Switzerland
(fotw);
Arms of Hrvatska Dubica, Croatia (fotw);
Flag of Mollens, Switzerland (fotw);
Arms and Flag of Schwändi, Switzerland (Wikipedia & fotw)
Please note that a fruit or leaf etc., without a stalk is neither slipped nor couped
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