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by Janith Leanage
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This army flag of Sri Lanka has been in use since 1972. Older versions are
shown below.
Janith Leanage, 11 October 2002
image by
Eugene Ipavec, 2 February 2009
based on an image at http://www.semana.com/home.aspx
A black flag with two vertical green stripes, and a golden emblem. The yellow
number 1 on the top right corner of the flag means it is the 1st Battalion's
flag.
Esteban Rivera, 1 February 2009
image by
Eugene Ipavec, 2 February 2009
On the Sri Lankan Ministry of Defence official website there's a link entitled
"LTTE underwater vehicles found - Mullaittivu" (http://www.defence.lk/picturegallery/picc.asp?tfile=Boats&cat=ACHI),
where several pictures are published of Sri Lankan Military personnel capturing
terrorist LTTE hardware (mainly semi submersibles). On some of these pictures
(7h and 8th row from top to bottom) one can see the flag of the 4th Sri Lanka
Light Infantry (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Light_Infantry).
Esteban Rivera,
2 February 2009
Blue flag with a white hunting horn tied with a blue-red knotted cord to
the feathers of the Prince of Wales in the crest - apparently some colonial-era
symbols remain in use.
Eugene Ipavec, 2 February 2009
Former British colonial units generally preserve as much continuity as they can
with their forebears. What is not acceptable is the continuation of British
royal insignia when a country becomes a republic and no longer recognises the
British Sovereign as their head of state. So the three ostrich feathers known as
"The Plume of the Prince Wales" were no longer acceptable in the Sri Lanka Light
Infantry insignia when the country became a republic in 1972. The plume of the
Prince of Wales was replaced with three sheaves of paddy configured to look
almost exactly like the previous plume. The horn symbolising light infantry has
nothing to do with royalty and thus was preserved.
T.F. Mills, 3
February 2009
image by
Eugene Ipavec, 2 February 2009
There's a link on the Sri Lankan Ministry of Defence (http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20090204_08)
entitled "58 Div overruns largest LTTE suicide bomber training facility-
Mullaittivu". There's a picture there that might be the flag of the 58 Division
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/58_Division_(Sri_Lanka)).
More images of this can be seen here as well:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7867798.stm
Esteban Rivera,
4 February 2009
Clearly modeled on the Sri Lankan national flag. Yellow
border, then a thinner red border containing a white box, the fly 2/3 or so
of it occupied by a second,
red box. The free hoist part of the white box contains an uncertain number of
blue objects; arrows? clubs? shooting stars? while there is evidently an
emblem in the red box, and a line of white text below it, both not clearly
visible (not that I could reproduce the latter in any case.)
Eugene Ipavec,
5 February 2009
by Miles Li
The flag of the (then) Ceylon Army Commander. HMSO 1958
gave the size as 9 inches to 12 inches (i.e. proportions 3:4).
Miles Li, 26 July 2004
by Janith Leanage
by Janith Leanage