Red Ensign on the Western Front, WW I

Nice images (via bannerman):

PHOTO OF THE DAY

7 April 2008

Interesting photo of an occasion when the Canadian Red Ensign was used officially as a national flag. It was, strictly speaking, one of two Canadian "national flags" of that time, including the Royal Union.

This photo shows the dedication of a Canadian Field Artillery memorial on Vimy Ridge in 1918. The unmistakable figure of Sir Arthur Currie stands out among the officers assembled with a chaplain.

PHOTO OF THE DAY

14 April 2008

An artist's view of the victory parade in Paris in 1918. Note the prominent Canadian Red Ensign that is being carried by our victorious troops. Pictures speak louder than words -- and many words have been expended trying to prove that the Red Ensign was "not seen" in the First World War!

PHOTO OF THE DAY

16 April 2008

Showing the flag on the Western Front.

PHOTO OF THE DAY

17 April 2008

It's a little hard to see in this poor scan, but that is a 1917-18 Red Ensign on Prime Minister Robert L. Borden's car at the left. With any luck a better quality image will be available soon.

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"The three fundamentally leftist revolutions, those that spawned France's democracy, Russia's international socialism, and Germany's national socialism, formed and fashioned the history of the last two hundred years and established the 'Centuries of the G' — guillotines, gaols, gallows, gas chambers, and gulags."

- Erik Maria von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1909-1999), Leftism Revisited, pg xvii

More on the Red Ensign here, and a selection Canadian military flags of the twentieth century is here.