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25.01.2022 As the countdown to Vietnam Veterans' Day continues here is a series of amateur photographs taken at the gate to the 1ALSG base at Vung Tau on 1 March 1972 as it was being formally handed over to the Vietnamese. The last 1 ATF personnel to depart for Australia, Delta Company of 4 RAR and 1 Troop A Squadron 3 Cavalry Regiment remained at Vung Tau as stores and other units were gradually withdrawn. The troop pennant and the Australian flag are being lowered for the last time as an APC stands guard.

25.01.2022 REMEMBRANCE DAY 2020 In honour of the 102nd anniversary of the armistice that ended the Great War here is a scene from Remembrance Day 2008 in the capital of Iraq.

24.01.2022 As the spiritual home of the Anzac tradition the flag society would like to pay tribute to all our peacekeepers past and present. Seen here is Major Mike Radwell (left) and Warrant Officer Trevor Skewes (right) deployed in Bougainville as part of the Peace Monitoring Group in 2001.

24.01.2022 Here is a scene from Afghanistan in 2007 featuring the 4 RAR (CDO) conducting a patrol.

24.01.2022 FLAG OF THE DAY - 26/11/20 Here is an Australian flag flying on Chatsworth Island for Remembrance Day that we here are told was once displayed along with a Union Jack in the foyer of the Havelock Tobacco Company, one of the sponsors of the 1901 Federal Flag Design Competition. It is signed by Egbert Nuttall who along with four others shared the prizemoney for submitting the winning entry.

22.01.2022 Here is a photograph of Australian soldier Corvus Macaulay who served with the British army (1PARA) during the initial invasion of Iraq in 2003. The recently fallen enemy capital Baghdad appears in the background.

22.01.2022 Let's put the Queen back into Queensland!

22.01.2022 The men of the 9th Australian Division raise an Australian flag on Sadau Island during the invasion of Tarakan that has been loaned to the Australian Flag Society by a kind supporter .

21.01.2022 VIETNAM VETERANS' DAY 2020 In honour of the 54th anniversary of the battle of Long Tan here is the latest addition to the flag society collection being a skull and cross bones design as displayed in the officers mess at the 1st Australian Field Hospital during the Vietnam war that has been donated by a kind supporter.

18.01.2022 Here are some photographs of Matthew Bunt, who served as a Force Level Logistic Asset during the occupation of Iraq. He was assigned to the task of fabricating a flag pole for Camp Victory in Baghdad. This flag pole was erected not at the FLLA/B depot but at the main Australian building at Camp Victory. The primary component of the Victory Base Complex, Camp Victory occupied an area surrounding the Baghdad International Airport. The Al-Faw Palace, which served as the headquar...ters for the Multi-National Corps Iraq (and later United States Forces Iraq), was on Camp Victory. The camp itself was situated about 5 kilometers from the airport. There were other camps that comprised the Victory Base Complex including Camp Liberty (formerly designated as Camp Victory North), Camp Striker, and Camp Slayer. On 1 December 2011, Camp Victory, further to a 2008 agreement, was handed over to the Iraqi government.

17.01.2022 Here is the 35th Water Transport Squadron LCM8 AB1051 in Iraq during Operation Falconer in 2003.

15.01.2022 Here is a photograph of a hut at Nui Dat that served as the headquarters of A Squadron 3 Cav during the Vietnam war.

13.01.2022 CHANGI POW FLAG DISCOVERED Here's something very special for all you AFL fans out there. There is some reason to believe a kind supporter has loaned to the flag society for evaluation a flag that may have flown over the AFL game where Peter Chitty won the sacred "Changi Brownlow" medal that was apparently made by prisoners of war out of a Japanese warplane and now resides at the Australian War Memorial . This is truly one of the greatest Australian red ensigns of them all.

09.01.2022 FLAG AND NATION Published in 2006 Dr Elizabeth Kwan's Flag and Nation stands as a landmark work of vexillology that brings to life the history of Australia's chief national symbols past and present. Authored by easily the most outstanding republican vexillologist of her generation, Flag and Nation is for the most part free of the political bias too often found in other books on the same subject. Perhaps Kwan's main contribution is in shedding new light on the Parliament House... Puzzle by revealing fresh evidence that points to the presence of blue ensigns at the 1927 opening of old parliament house. Indeed flag society national convenor Nigel Morris has described Kwan's magnum opus as "the seminal work on the Australian flag" - high praise coming from a loyalist and Australia's leading national treasure hunter. A thoroughly absorbing read full of rare archival material Flag and Nation is a must have for any serious student of vexillology. See more

06.01.2022 FLAG SOCIETY FINDS THIRD NATIONAL TREASURE In honour of one of the flag society's greatest ever national treasure hunting triumphs being the discovery of the flag of the Changi prision AFL league, here is the Australian rules anthem "Up there Cazaly" by Mike Brady and the Two Man Band. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Stbnl6stkh4

04.01.2022 Here is a photograph sent in by Joe Rivera of the Australian flag and a stuffed Boxing Kangaroo displayed on the turret of his ASLAV in Afghanistan. We here are told that it often attracted a lot of attention from children who would point and smile as the convoy was on the move.