Joint Service Flags (Australia)

Last modified: 2005-03-12 by jonathan dixon
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by Ralph Kelly, standardised by Miles Li, 8 Nov 2004

• Defence Force Ensign (Tri-Service Flag)
• Minster for Defence
• Chief of Defence Force
• Other Joint Services Command rank flags
• Historical Flags:
  • Chief of Australian Imperial Military Force

See also:

• Naval Flags
• Air Force Flags
• Army flags
• Australia
• Other Australian flags

Defence Force Ensign (Tri-service Flag)

The "Australian Defence Force Ensign" has been proclaimed in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette Special Issue No. S190, Friday 14 April 2000, under Section 5 of the Flags Act as a "flag of Australia". This is similar to the gazettal of the Royal Australian Naval Ensign and more recently the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags. In effect it is a form of Government copyright declaration.

I understand that the flag is the same as Flag 4 on page 29 (correction number 30) of Album des Pavillons. It is a vertical tricolour of Dark Blue, Red, Light Blue with a large Joint Services Emblem in yellow in the centre, extending into the two blue bands. The Joint Services Emblem is a combination of a naval anchor, airforce wings, crossed army swords over a boomerang and a Commonwealth star as crest. In Album des Pavillons it is identified as both the flag of the Minister of Defence and the Joint Services Flag.

The flag has been used on such occasions as required