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Luxembourg: Military and Police colours

Army colour
Police colour
Police March Team colour
Gendarmerie colour

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Luxembourg

Army colour

Luxembourg Army colour (left, obverse; right, reverse) - Images by Joseph McMillan, 13 February 2005

The Grand Ducal Order of 15 February 1982 on military flags and emblems, available on the official website of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, provides the following:

Drapeau de l'Armée (Flag, or Color, of the Army)

1:1 cloth bordered on the three free sides by yellow or gilt silk cord. The obverse consists of ten horizontal stripes, white and blue, with the red lion rampant from the Luxembourg coat of arms. The lion is .9 of the hoist and .7 of the fly. The reverse is also ten blue and white stripes, but with the Grand Ducal monogram in gold ensigned with a gold Grand Ducal crown. The monogram (currently H) is .425 of the hoist in height and .37 of the fly in width; the crown is .245 of the hoist and .26 of the fly.

On the above image, the lion is designed according to the "1993 pattern". See the discussion on that pattern.

Joseph McMillan, 8 February 2005

Police colour

On 1 January 2000, the Luxembourg Gendarmerie was merged with the police; the single force is now called the Police Grand-Ducale. Based on two photographs, both described as the drapeau de la Police Grand-Ducale and both showing the flag carried by the same young policewoman, the obverse of the police color is still striped with the red lion, while the reverse consists of the national tricolor with the simple arms of the Grand Duchy superimposed on the center, taking up about half the hoist, and the grand ducal monograms in each corner, the crowns pointing inward in the bottom corners and outward in the top corners.
The first source picture shows mostly the obverse, but the red stripe on the top of the reverse is just visible beneath the finial. The second source picture shows the reverse, but with the blue and white stripes of the obverse just visible at the upper fly corner. Both flags are topped by a silver-colored finial consisting of a crowned lion rampant standing on a platform.

Joseph McMillan, 8 February 2005

Police March Team colour

Luxembourg Police March Team colour - Image by Ivan Sache, 1 June 2009

The Luxembourg Police has a march team (Équipe de marche); the 42 team members train twice a month and take part to three international marches each year, the Army March at Diekirch (Luxembourg), the Four-Days March (Vierdaagse Afstandmarsen) at Nijmegen (The Netherlands) and the Civil and Army March at Fulda (Germany).

In 2000, following the merging of the Gendarmerie and Police forces, the March Team was granted a new colour, carried by the team leader during each march. The colour, decorated with a sash of the national colours, is a square blue flag, charged with the emblem of the Police surrounded by "EQUIPE DE MARCHE" (top) and "LUXEMBOURG" (bottom) in silver letters. On the flag, all the elements originally golden on the emblem are rendered in silver, that is the crown over the shield, the swords' hilt and even the lion's crown, nails and tongue.

Source: Webpage of the Police March Team

Ivan Sache, 1 June 2009

Gendarmerie colour

The Grand Ducal Order of 15 February 1982 on military flags and emblems, available on the official website of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, provides the following:

Drapeau de la Gendarmerie (Flag, or Color, of the Gendarmerie)

1:1 cloth bordered on the three free sides by white or silver cord. The obverse [same as the Army color] consists of ten horizontal stripes, white and blue, with the red lion rampant from the Luxembourg coat of arms. The lion is .9 of the hoist and .7 of the fly. The reverse is blue with the emblem of the Gendarmerie on the center in silver. This emblem is a flaming grenade superimposed on two crossed sabers, all surrounded by laurel branches and ensigned with a grand ducal crown. In each corner is the grand ducal monogram ensigned with the grand ducal crown, oriented toward the center, also in silver. The Gendarmerie badge is .5 of the hoist by .425 of the fly; the letters in the monograms are .1 x .09; the crowns ensigning the monograms are .05 x .075.

Joseph McMillan, 8 February 2005