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Army
![[Army colour]](../images/g/gr^racr.gif)
Army colour - Image by Miles Li, 9 July 2015
Light blue with a white cross, the width of each arm being one-third the length/width of the flag, bearing St George slaying the dragon facing the fly. Golden fringe, cords and tassels, dark blue pole with silver spirals, golden or silver cross finial. Proportions 1:1.
Miles Li, 9 July 2015
Navy
![[Navy colour]](../images/g/gr^rncr.gif)
Navy colour - Image by Miles Li, 9 July 2015
The Naval ensign, with golden fringe, cords and tassels, dark blue pole with medium blue spirals, silver cross finial. Proportions 2:3.
Miles Li, 9 July 2015
Air Force
![[Air Force colour]](../images/g/gr^rafcr.gif)
Air Force colour - Image by Miles Li, 9 July 2015
Similar to the Air Force ensign but with different dimensions: Medium blue with a white cross, the width of each arm being one-quarter the length/width of the flag; the diameter of the roundel on the cross being approximately one-third the length/width of the flag; the diameter of the ring around the crown being approximately two-thirds that of the roundel; golden fringe, cords and tassels, dark blue pole with silver spirals, golden cross finial. Proportions 1:1.
Miles Li, 9 July 2015
![[Finials]](../images/g/gr^cross.gif)
Colour's finials - Image by Miles Li, 11 July 2015
he finials of all Greek military colours, both during the Monarchy
and the Republics, have been in the form of a cross above a ball, but
other than that there have been no standard design. The majority of
colours have used the cross pattˇe with an additional pointy end at
the bottom (A), thus making this a kind of cross pattée fitchy; others
have used the Latin cross (B) or the Greek Cross (C).
Moreover, while the Navy have used silver finials and the Air Force
have used golden ones, in the case of the Army these can be golden or
silver, without any apparent reason (the old Royal Hellenic Army used
golden and silver insignia to indicate ranks, rather than specific
regiments or branches of service).
Miles Li, 11 July 2015