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![[Army Ordnance Corps]](../images/i/in^aoc.gif)
image by Joe McMillan
Horizontal stripes of navy blue, maroon, and Saxe blue (very light blue). The
IAOC also carries a corps colour, which is scarlet with the corps badge
surrounded by a lotus and ashoka wreath. The colour was granted in 1970..
Source: army website
Joe McMillan, 8 February 2003
![[Corps of EME]](../images/i/in^eme.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 26 August 2001
The Corps of EME was created in 1943 and its role is 'achieve and
maintain the operational fitness of electrical, mechanical, electronic
and optical equipment of the Army'.
Official meaning of the colours is:
Oxford blue, devotion to duty;
Golden yellow, magnanimity and intellect;
Scarlet, aggressiveness valour and sacrifice.
The flag is apparently 5:8, vertically divided
blue-yellow-red-yellow-blue (30:15:10:15:30)
Source: army website
Ivan Sache, 26 August 2001
The IEME also carry a corps colour, granted in 1964, that is yellow with the
corps badge on a blue disk surrounded by a lotus and ashoka wreath.
Joe McMillan, 8 February 2003
![[Regiment of Artillery]](../images/i/in^rgart.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 26 August 2001
A 2:3 rectangular flag, horizontally divided red-Navy blue.
Red and blue represent the flash and the smoke of the gun according to
gunners' folklore. In fact, red has been common to all combat arms
(infantry, armour and artillery). The blue was taken from the ribbon of
the 'Star of India' which had been incorporated in the artillery crest.
The original colour was light blue but since a similar colour was
adopted by the Corps of Signals, it was changed to Navy blue to avoid confusion.
Source: army website
Ivan Sache, 26 August 2001
According to the website
and Das (1981),
the flag is red over blue with the corps badge (a field gun) in gold. The
illustration here lacks the badge.
Joe McMillan, 8 February 2003
![[Indian Army Service Corps]](../images/i/in^asc.gif)
image by Joe McMillan
Horizontal stripes of black, white and yellow.
Source: army website
Joe McMillan, 8 February 2003
![[3rd Cavalry Regiment]](../images/i/in^cav.gif)
image by Joe McMillan
Horizontal tricolor, gray-yellow-green.
Source: army website
Joe McMillan, 8 February 2003
Blue with the regimental badge on the center.
Joe McMillan, 8 February 2003
Divided upper hoist to lower fly, light green over red over dark green, with
the regimental badge in black on the center.
Joe McMillan, 8 February 2003
![[Corps of Engineers]](../images/i/in^ce.gif)
image by Joe McMillan
Horizontal stripes of red and black with the corps badge on the center in
white.
Source: army website
Joe McMillan, 8 February 2003
![[Brigade of Guards]](../images/i/in^gds.gif)
image byJoe McMillan, 8 February 2003
Horizontal triband, red-yellow-red, with the brigade badge in red on the
center
Source: army website
Joe McMillan, 8 February 2003
It is a camp flag. Indian regimental colors are similar to British ones (even down to the same measurements), with a solid field in the facing color and a badge on the center ensigned with the three-lion badge of Ashoka (the national "arms"), and surrounded by a wreath of lotus blossoms and scrolls bearing battle honors.
Joe McMillan, 29 November 2005
See also:
Brigade of Guards website providing [unofficial] information and an
illustration of the flag with the eagle in black.
Valentin Poposki, 29 November 2005
My image was based on the official Indian Army website, which shows the eagle
on the flag outlined in red. Bharat Rakshak, while an excellent resource on the
Indian military, is not an official site. I suspect they simply took the black
outlined badge at the top of the page and placed it unchanged on the triband
flag. This is a camp flag. Indian regimental colors are similar to British ones
(even down to the same measurements), with a solid field in the facing color and
a badge on the
center ensigned with the three-lion badge of Ashoka (the national "arms"), and
surrounded by a wreath of lotus blossoms and scrolls bearing battle honors.
Joe McMillan, 29 November 2005
Red with the regimental badge in black.
Source: army website
Joe McMillan, 8 February 2003
![[Punjab Regiment]](../images/i/in^punjb.gif)
image by Joe McMillan
Green with the regimental badge (the ship badge of the pre-Independence 2nd
Punjab Regiment) in white.
Source: army website
Joe McMillan, 8 February 2003
Vertical tricolor green-red-green with the red stripe fimbriated yellow, and
the regimental badge on the center in black.
Source: army website
Joe McMillan, 8 February 2003
Vertical tricolor black-white-gray, with the regimental badge on the center
in black.
Joe McMillan, 8 February 2003
Green bordered blue with a saffron panel on the center charged with the
regimental badge in black.
Joe McMillan, 8 February 2003
Here is a sample regimental colour (Kumaon Regiment, formerly 19th Hyderabad Regiment) at http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/LAND-FORCES/Army/Regiments/Kumaon2.jpg. Note that half of the bettle honour scrolls are blank. I suspect these are not-so-subtle place holders for British-era battle honours that the post-1947 Indian government deemed "repugnant" because they were for Indians fighting Indians. These battle honours are not allowed to be displayed, but regiments still unofficially observe them. Blank scrolls would be one way of saying "we used to have more battle honours".
T. F. Mills, 29 November 2005
Green with the regimental badge in black.
Joe McMillan, 8 February 2003
![[Garwhal Rifles]](../images/i/in^garrf.gif)
image by Joe McMillan
Horizontal triband, black-saffron-black, with the Maltese cross from the
regimental badge on the center in black.
Joe McMillan, 8 February 2003
Dark green with the battalion badge in saffron.
Joe McMillan, 8 February 2003
![[Army Medical Corps]](../images/i/in^amc.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 26 August 2001
A 2:3 rectangular flag, horizontally divided dull cherry-black-old gold
(11:2:11).
The colours were adopted by the Indian Army Medical Corps in 1944, as
representative of the three amalgamated components. In 1953, the colours
were retained as flag colours.
The flags should be made of bunting cloth. Colour flag is 2' x 3' with
flag mast 15' high; flag is 4' x 6' with flag mast 20' high or more.
Dull cherry was the colour of the Royal Army Medical Corps and is the
colour of Medical Services of many other countries. It is associated
with positive health, succor, and freedom from disease.
Black was the colour of Indian Hospital Corps. It is associated with
formless state of creating birth and death.
Old Gold was tyhe colour of Indian Medical Services, which existed
before 1943. It is the symbol of Sun God Aesculapius, the God of Medicine.
Source: army website
Ivan Sache, 26 August 2001
![[Northern Command]](../images/i/in^trck.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 25 August 2001
A horizontally divided red-black-red flag with a yellow emblem in the middle.
The shield version of the flag was painted on the front hood of the trucks which
blocked us for more than one hour.
Ivan Sache, 25 August 2001
This is Northern Command, one of five of the highest geographical divisions
of the Indian Army. All use the horizontal red-black-red with a yellow device.
The yellow arrow here is obviously the compass needle pointing north.
T. F. Mills, 25 August 2001
Strangely, the Indian national flag seems not to be used in military
basis. I saw it only in schoolyards of government schools.
Below are described some
of the flags I have been able to see properly from the bus.
Identification of the units was in most cases not possible for the
reasons given above.
Ivan Sache, 25 August 2001
What you have sent are "formation" and "arm of service" signs, used chiefly for vehicle recognition, and designed in way that is not meant to be intuitive to the casual observer. I am not really acquainted with Indian colour schemes, so the rest is just speculation. I believe most Indian schemes are still derived from the British. T. F. Mills, 25 August 2001
![[Flag at 257th Transit Camp]](../images/i/in^257tc.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 25 August 2001
A horizontally divided red-yellow flag.
The flag was also painted as a swallow-tailed flag on road signals, but
I do not know the difference of meaning, if any, between the rectangular
and the swallow-tailed flags. The flag I saw flying in the barracks yard
was definitively rectangular.
Ivan Sache, 25 August 2001
![[Flag on vehicles in Basgo]](../images/i/in^vehun.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 25 August 2001
A horizontally divided dark green-red-light blue-red-dark green flag.
Basgo is a strategic place located between the two highest passes of the
Leh-Kargil road. It was once the capital of one of the small kingdoms
which fought against each other for the control of Ladakh.
Ivan Sache, 25 August 2001
Possibly the Air Defence Artillery?
T. F. Mills, 25 August 2001
![[Flag at a base in Kargil]](../images/i/in^karun.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 25 August 2001
A horizontally divided yellow-dark green-white-dark green-yellow
(1:2:1:2:1) flag.
Kargil is a military hot spot and was about to be seized during the last
winter attack by Pakistan. It is really not the place where to ask
questions about Army, so I cannot say more about the flag I saw there.
Ivan Sache, 25 August 2001
Yellow and green is probably arm of service (what, I don't know), and the
white stripe is probably an obscure code signifying that this particular unit
belongs to a unit bigger than a division.
T. F. Mills, 25 August 2001
According to the Press Information Bureau of the Indian Army, Headquarters 9
Corps (HQ 9 Corps), Indian Army's newest & youngest Corps formally became
operational on 1 September 2005 in Himachal Pradesh. Based at Yol Cantt, near
Dharamsala, the Rising Star formation, as it is informally named, is headed by
Lt Gen Anup Singh Jamwal who has successfully commanded 4 Corps in the North
East prior to this assignment. Having been raised within a short span of four
months, HQ 9 Corps is responsible for large areas. The brief ceremony of
Assumption of Command held at Yol Cantt was attended by all formation Commanders
and Staff Officers of Headquarters 9 Corps, and began with unfurling of the 9
pointed Rising Star flag.
Ivan Sache, 2 September 2005
