France: Army service pennants

Fanions de service

Last modified: 2002-01-18 by ivan sache
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• Sections of infantry ammunitions - 1st, 2nd, and 3rd sections of the artillery depot
• Sections of infantry ammunitions - 4th section of the artillery depot
• Ambulances and field hospitals
• Telegraph posts
• Army postal service
• Umpires

See also:

• France
• France: Military flags
• France: Commanding officer's pennants

Sections of infantry ammunitions - 1st, 2nd and 3rd sections of the artillery depot

by Ivan Sache

0.65 x 0.5 m. Plain yellow.
Lantern: Yellow.

Sections of infantry ammunitions - 4th section of the artillery depot

by Ivan Sache

0.65 x 0.5 m. Plain blue.
Lantern: Blue.

Ambulance and field hospitals

by Ivan Sache

0.65 x 0.5 m.White field with a red border and a red cross in the middle.
Lanterns: 1 white and 1 red.

Telegraph posts

by Ivan Sache

0.65 x 0.5 m. White field with a blue border and a blue T in the middle.
Lantern: Similar to the pennant.

Army postal service

by Ivan Sache

0.65 x 0.5 m. White field with a green border and a green P in the middle.
Lantern: Similar to the pennant.

Umpires (arbitres)

by Ivan Sache

0.65 x 0.5 m. White field with a red border.
Lantern: Red.

Umpires might have been similar to what the modern US terminology would call observer/controler (or OC) - personnel belonging to the unit executing an excercise or proffesionals from specialized institutions who follow the course of the excercise as "neutral side" and are consulted in after action reviews for evaluation of the excercise.

Zeljko Heimer, 23 November 2000

A wargaming expert could probably explain why at some obsc