Flags of RT company and battalion commander The definition in the dictionary is: a small flag used for various purposes; is short and simple, in fact it is a piece of cloth attached to a pole for practical use well defined, without that initially no symbolic meaning he has not been given.
ORIGINS
For the first When we talk about it in the text of 1469 organizing the body of free archers, where it is prescribed for masters - general to bring before them a white flag. It is also mentioned in 1661 as a piece of serge attached to a pole and often decorated with the colors of the regiment or the chief, he serves as the delimitation of the camps, alignments, staking, to figurative conventional units are not present, etc. ... In short, a purely utilitarian, its colors and design have for identification purposes only.
RULES STATED
is December 25, 1811 that released a detailed regulation. Flags are square 0.812 m on each side, without fringes or ties, or registrations, the colors will be white for the 2nd Battalion, red for the 3, blue for the 4th on the 5th green, yellow for 6; the 1st Battalion had no pennant since he had custody of the eagle. The flags were provided for the infantry. It is clear that the idea of Emperor flags can only be in utilitarian objects without symbolic significance, so that the enemy can not take them as trophies. But at that time, regiments were seldom brought together: the 5th Battalion was that of deposit, 4 and 6 regiments were often tentative. Thus, these formations were devoid of eagles and the tendency of battalion commanders was to give more importance to simple alignment flags.
With the Restoration, the flag disappears, no longer needed. In fact, flags are restored battalions, each with their distinctive colors. But in 1822, with the recovery of regiments, one returns to the special flag, hence the regulation of flags. The 1st Battalion has distinctive color corresponding to that of the uniform, blue, scarlet, yellow, crimson, orange, sky blue, brown following the series, the 2nd Battalion was white and the 3rd has a cut (or cut along the side where you look) of the distinctive color and white. Nevertheless we found in an engraving published in 1912 in "The Book of Sabretache" Flags of 10 elite companies of the line: a dark blue to red pomegranate, and one dark blue bugle daffodil. These flags were placed at the top tents. Since 1830, the 2nd Battalion took the tricolor flag, and since similar legislation has continued until 1914, providing simple unadorned pennants alignment or registration. These regulations covered only the infantry, and it seems that before 1914, mounted weapons have never been a flag.
FLAGS OF BATTALION AND COMPANY
The Rifles Algerians, "Turcos" were originally flags battalion and company. Indeed, for these regiments, the flag remained in the central portion with the colonel, and companies were often isolated in small communities of corn. As a result, the captains felt the need to have an emblem symbolizing unity, the idea was approved in high places, and a text of 20 January 1857 Flags that these regulations were the color of the battalion with border ornament and the colors Company, the ornaments are limited to a hand accompanied by four crescents, one in each corner, all in cloth cut and sewn. No registration, no fringe, pole is surmounted by a simple ball of copper.
an ersatz FLAG
Already the flag took a very strong symbolic meaning and became an ersatz flag. Under the Second Empire, the Zouave Regiment of the Guard was two battalions. From 1863 and until 1870 it was supplemented by a battalion of infantrymen charged in turn on the three regiments.
the occasion his arrival in Paris, the battalion received a beautiful flag a copy of which is still preserved in the infantry museum in Montpellier. This flag was silk embroidered in gold with a scroll bearing the regimental name surmounted by the imperial crown together in the corners of supporting the growing number of the battalion.
PROLIFERATION OF FLAGS
Fashion Flags company was taken by hunters on foot, probably in imitation of turcos, while visiting various battalions in Algeria. These flags, including the creation remained on the initiative of corps commanders, became widespread during the Great War. It is also during this period that the flag was spread throughout the Army and took an increasing importance of the fact that every quote attributed to a collective unit, the Croix de Guerre was formally attached to the flag on the front troops. This is often the occasion of this quote that the flag was created, sometimes even for smaller groups that the company: the proliferation of these flags there are no regulations controlling, was immense, and the variety of immense symbolic .
MARK SYMBOLIC UNIT
therefore launched the fashion grew, and few companies who, in 1939, had not their flag. In the cavalry, and especially in the Artillery, the flags were fairly uncommon. Only after the Second World War that the pennant was the subject of regulation, first by a very short circular of 23 March 1949, and later by a circular dated May 26, 1953 more detail specifying the context of the symbolism of the flag, and requiring the creator to file an application for approval. In its title III, paragraph 1, the circular states:
"The flag has practically become the symbolic unit as well as the badge of tradition."
This statement also confirms the choice of traditional colors of each unit within the body, these colors are not those flags alignment regulations before 1914, but those tassels worn on the hair at the same time. For example, the battalions of a regiment in the order of numbers in the blue, red, bright yellow, and green companies have the same colors, the flags of the past with the combination of two colors: for example 5 Co., 2 ° ° Good (which was the 1st battalion) was to have a blue and red flag. When the same two colors meet, one of them, basically the company is replaced by white or sky blue. The tricolor flag
is now forbidden. The statement sets out further details, leaving a relatively narrow choice for creators. Thus, modern flags, they have increased discipline in the symbolism, have lost much in variety and novelty.
THE FLAGS OF COMMAND
They are long been regulated by the official bulletins. They are reserved for general officers following a specific code, like the marks of the Navy. But since 1940, a trend was born, and we see very often appear on these flags, the insignia in the center of the tradition of great unity. The command flag was also adopted by the Heads of the body, which is absolutely no regulation, because outside of unit flags, only allowed those units below the company provided that such training has done little subject to collective citation. Flags of the head of the body are very diverse.
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