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Flag with red and white stripes and one 5 point star

As for the reported use of gold stripes on casket flags, this seems to be a recent development. Kirsch, 12 July 2011īased on comments received from inquirers to the FOTW website over the past ten years, and confirmation of their existence by Whitney Smith, flags with gold stars were definitely used for caskets of servicemen who died in action in Europe toward the end of World War II or shortly thereafter - it seems to have been a short lived phenomenon, and that only for bodies returned from southern Germany, as I recall (but that was the American zone). NAVA NEWS #190 (April-June 2006) featured a cartoon on the back cover that details the flag ceremony at a military funeral. The flag is used during the funeral to cover the casket, then folded into a triangle and presented to the next of kin with appropriate words.

Today, such flags are usually 5 by 8 feet in size (1.5 x 2.4 meters) although the official size is supposed to be 5 x 9.5 (1.5 x 2.9 meters).

Military has more or less used this custom since the Civil War (seems to have been just used for officers on occasion at that point) but it wasn't codified into military rules until World War I or thereabouts, as far as I have been able to determine. It may have originated in the naval custom of covering a casket with the ship's ensign when conducting a burial at sea prior to sliding the casket overboard (but retaining the flag).

Regarding casket flags, this is a custom whose origin seems to be at least several centuries old.

Maybe someone in France or other parts of Europe may have better luck. sources from 1916-1918 and from 1940-1945 and have turned up nothing about such flags. manufacture although the owner who inherited it has documents that clearly state it originated in France. However, it was not a military funeral flag and, in fact, bore markings that indicate U.S. Only one flag I have seen was without question from 1918 and it has 4 gold stripes replacing #3, #5, #9, and #11 (counting from the top).

Dating has been difficult on these flags because of the similarities of manufacture from World War I to World War II, although all those I have seen with any kind of a story place the flag in World War I.

While not all of the flags in this category are identified as to origination, those that were identified this way were all European in manufacture (and all were from France).

There seems to be a European connection on all of these flags that we had such data on.

We have not completely ruled out substandard fabrics, however. At least one of the flags I have seen is in like new condition, having been carefully stored since 1918. Although this is possible with certain cotton fabrics, it seems too regular to not have been deliberate.

We rejected the notion that some kind of substandard fabrics were used which aged to a bright golden color. Jim Ferrigan, Howie Madaus, and I discussed this at some length.I have seen gold stripes #3, #5, #9, and #11 (counting from the top). Flag (48 Stars) with 1 or more gold stripes (but never all of them) in place of the correct red stripes. Howie Madaus reported in 2001 that he had heard of a flag where two rows of stars on a 48 star flag were gold and the rest white. I have seen 1, 2, and 4 gold stars, usually the first few in the top row at the hoist. Flag (48 stars) with 1 or more gold stars (but never all of them) in place of the correct white stars.

There are several design variants that have been observed: Response from the Veterans Advisory BoardĮditor's Note: This page contains information from discussions concerning flags with gold stripes or gold stars that originally were on the UFE pagesĪt some reasonably uncertain points during World War I, a number of flags were created that sometimes seem to be connected with military funerals.Keywords: forty-eight | united states | gold stripes | gold stars | This page is part of © FOTW Flags Of The World website 48 Star Flags with Gold Stars or Stripes (U.S.) 48 Star Flags with Gold Stars or Stripes (U.S.)