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Flag of the British Resident (Perak, Malaysia)

1:2 image by Ivan Sache, 13 January 2000

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Flag of the British Resident c.1939, possibly mistaken
Flag of the British Resident, probably mistaken

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The Corrections to Flaggenbuch 1939 [neu39] which appear in the 1992 facsimile edition [neu92], show the flag of the British Resident as a national flag forked.
Ivan Sache, 13 January 2000

If there was any uniformity among the flags of the British Residents of the Malay States, it should have been the forked national flag [as at the top of this page].
David Prothero, 15 January 2000

Flag of the British Resident c.1939, possibly mistaken

1:2 image by Ivan Sache, 13 January 2000

Source: Flaggenbuch 1939 [neu39].
Ivan Sache, 13 January 2000

The flag of the British Resident is problematic. The initial (December 1939) edition of Flaggenbuch 1939 [neu39] showed the flag of the British Resident as a forked white flag with national flag in canton. However, the Corrections to Flaggenbuch 1939 which appear in the 1992 facsimile edition [neu92], show the flag of the British Resident as a national flag forked. Was this the correction of an error or a change in the flag? Jaume Ollé shows a third one, national flag forked with Union Flag in canton.
Ivan Sache, 13 January 2000

Flag of the British Resident, probably mistaken

1:2 image by Jaume Ollé

As far as I know this was not an official British flag. If there was any uniformity among the flags of the British Residents of the Malay States, it should have been the forked national flag. I wonder if Jaume Ollé's image arose from a misunderstood description, in which the field of the forked national flag was combined with a canton —as the resident's flag was supposed to have had— which was described as "of the national flag", and mistakenly thought to refer to the national flag of the Resident, not the national flag of the State.
David Prothero, 15 January 2000