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High Commissioner for Palestine Ensign 1936-1948 (British Mandate of Palestine 1923-1948)

Official badge design, possibly used	Badge as actually used in 1948
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both by Željko Heimer and António Martins

Description
Badge actually used in 1948
Unusual crown design

See also:

British Mandate of Palestine 1923-1948 (Mandate Government of Palestine-Eretz Israel)
Historical Flags (Israel)
Historical Flags (Palestine)
British Colonies

Description

This flag should have been flown only when the High Commissioner was afloat. The Union Flag would have been the usual flag on land.

The shape of the crown was unusual for a British flag.

Nozomi Kariyasu's scan of the Palestine High Commissioner's badge is the official design which would have been surrounded by the standard green laurel leaf garland on a Union Flag. Approved by High Commissioner 17th July 1935, published as part of 1936 amendment (No.5) to Drawings of the Flags of All Nations 1930, discontinued 15th May 1948. The badge that was actually in use in 1948 was more like this scan. This is a reconstruction based on the flag flown on the High Commissioner's launch as shown in a black and white news-reel. The garland should be thicker than in the drawing, I presume that it would have been green, and the crown yellow.

David Prothero, 16 February and 17 October 1999, 18 August 2000 and 15 March 2001

British Union Flag 1:2 defaced in the middle with white disk containing the badge and encircled with green garland. Badge consists of a yellow crown (untypical for British crowns) below which is inscribed in serifed font in three rows 'PALESTINE HIGH COMMISSIONER', the lower row being curved. The actual badge as shown on David Prothero's scan and the one in Flaggenbuch 1939 are more then very similar — I cannot see any difference.