Italy - Military Rank Flags

Last modified: 2005-03-12 by dov gutterman
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• Overview
• Minister of Defence
• Chief-of-Staff of Defence
• General of Army
• Chief of the General Staff
• General of Army Corps
• General of Division
• General of Brigade
• Commandeing General of the Carabinieri
• Military Ordinariate

See also:

• Italy
• Italy - Naval Rank Flags

Other sites:

• Italian Navy site (Flags page)

Overview

I located A link to a webpage containing several state Italian flags and ensigns. This is the website of the Italian navy. The site URL is: <www.marina.difesa.it<. In the bottom of that page there's an arrow leading to the next page (and then to another
one) with more flag at <www.marina.difesa.it/gradi/band1.htm> and <www.marina.difesa.it/gradi/band2.htm>
Pascal Vagnat , 7 January 1999 and Jorge Candeias , 28 July 1999

The flags on the second and third rows of <www.marina.difesa.it> are Army and Carabinieri (national police) rank flags. I know no Italian, but the white flags with red stars and no border correspond closely enough with Italian general officers' insignia and I can identify them:
four stars: General of Army
three stars + horizontal line: General of Army Corps with Special Appointment (e.g. in command of an army)
three stars: General of Army Corps
two stars: General of Division
one star: General of Brigade
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