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What is an Ensign?

April 26, 2017ensign

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What is an Ensign?

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• There are two answers to this question, different but both correct. • The most junior grade of commissioned officer used to be called Ensign. In the Army the rank is now called 2nd Lieutenant. • Ensign also refers to a junior flag. For example the national flag of the UK is the Union Jack (below left and the British Blue Ensign (below right) is an official flag junior to (less important than) the national flag. Until 1951 the Australian flag was an ensign (The Australian Blue Ensign) and therefore junior to the Union Jack. That was legally changed with Royal Assent and Federal Legislation. The Australian Red Ensign is now junior to the Australian National flag.