Belgium: Chief of Staff's car flag

Last modified: 2013-08-10 by ivan sache
Keywords: chief of general staff | chief of naval staff | car flag | letters: zf (yellow) | letters: zs (yellow) | letters: js (yellow) | letters: gs (yellow) |
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• Introduction
• Chief of General Staff
• Chief of Naval Staff

See also:

• Belgium
• Belgium: Military flags
• Belgium: Naval rank flags

Introduction

According to the Belgian Navy Headquarters, the car flags shown on this page do not exist any longer. Flag officers now use as car flag a plain Belgian tricolor and a blue square flag without anchor as appropriate to their rank.

Armand du Payrat, 10 June 2002

Chief of General Staff

Former car flag of the Chief of General Staff - Images by Željko Heimer, 25 February 2001
Left, as shown in Album des Pavillons, 2000 [pay00]
Right, as shown in Album des Pavillons, January 1997 [pay97]

The car flag of the Chief of General Staff was the Belgian tricolor flag with golden initials, "GS" in 1997, and "JS" in 2000.

Željko Heimer, 25 February 2001

Chief of Naval Staff

Former car flag of the Chief of Naval Staff - Images by Željko Heimer, 25 February 2001
Left, as shown in Album des Pavillons, 2000 [pay00]
Right, as shown in Album des Pavillons, January 1997 [pay97]

The car flag of the Chief of Naval Staff was the Belgian tricolor flag with golden initials, "ZF" in 1997, and "ZS" in 2000.

Željko Heimer, 25 February 2001