Just how much can we deface a British blue ensign? I’d love to get these all as badges and sew them into a coat.
Some of these are from general flags, some only ensigns. My favourites are #4, #8, and #29.
Emblem identities considerately enclosed for flag guessers
- Alderney
- Guernsey
- Jersey
- Anguilla
- Bermuda
- British Virgin Islands (“Vigilate”)
- Cayman Islands (“He hath founded it upon the seas”)
- Falkland Islands, 1876-1925 (“Desire the right”)
- " ", 1925-48
- " ", current
- Gibraltar (“Montis insignia calpe”)
- Montserrat
- Pitcairn
- St. Helena, 1875-1984
- " ", current
- Turks and Caicos Islands, 1889-1968
- " " current
- Canada, 1921-57. A similar version with red leaves was used until 1965.
- India, 1879-1947 (“Heaven’s light our guide”)
- United States of the Ionian Islands, 1815-64
- Hong Kong, 1959-97
- Weihaiwei, 1903-30
- Newfoundland, 1870-1904 (“Terra Nova”)
- " “, 1904-31 ("Terra Nova haec tibi dona fero”)
- Union of South Africa, 1910-28
- Australia (left-side star removed)
- New Zealand (which they voted recently to retain)
- Tuvalu (interestingly, based on a light blue ensign)
- Ceylon (1875-48)
- Tanganyika (1923-61)
- New South Wales, 1870-76
- " ", current
- Queensland, 1870-76
- " ", current
- South Australia, 1870-76
- " ", 1876-1904
- " ", current
- Victoria, 1877
- Western Australia. Before 1953 the swan faced away from the union jack, the filthy subversive
- Fiji, 1877-83 – it should be higher up but I forgot about it. Back when you could put female nipples on your flags – if anyone zooms in to see a 150px image, I don’t think they have the right to be offended…
- " ", 1883-1908
- " ", 1908-70. This seems to be the only British ensign with a motto neither English nor Latin: “Rerevaka na Kalou ka doka na Tui”
- " ", current
- Cook Islands
- British Somaliland, 1903-50
- " ", 1950-60
- British Kenya, 1921-63
- Uganda Protectorate, 1894-1962
- British Mauritius, 1869-1906. I never even knew we had Mauritius. Motto: “Stello cavisque moris indici”
- " ", 1906-68
- Southern Rhodesia, 1924-64
- Northern Rhodesia, 1924-64
- Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1953-63