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Just a note to say - The image of the Union flag at the header is upside down. :( God Save the King.

Well done.

Thank you.

That's the distress sign.......appropriate maybe?

Actually it was not upside down, just badly drawn, failed to realise when I inserted it.

why does everyone call it the union flag now? it was always a union jack growing up, why insist on flag now? the union flag was always the american southern flag

bradaz11 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 19, 2022 6:25 pm why does everyone call it the union flag now? it was always a union jack growing up, why insist on flag now? the union flag was always the american southern flag

Either name is correct but being and old Red Ensign man - It was always known as the Union Flag unless it's flown from the jackstaff, in which case it's the Union Jack.

1066 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 19, 2022 6:36 pm

bradaz11 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 19, 2022 6:25 pm why does everyone call it the union flag now? it was always a union jack growing up, why insist on flag now? the union flag was always the american southern flag

Either name is correct but being and old Red Ensign man - It was always known as the Union Flag unless it's flown from the jackstaff, in which case it's the Union Jack.

Correct

yes, but theres correct and then theres what it was always called...

Something that I hadn't heard until relatively recently was that the U.S.A. also uses the term "Union Jack" when referring to its own flag when flown from the jackstaff of a ship.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_of_the_United_States