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image by Rob Raeside, 1 March 2010
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There was also a flag granted to the former owner of Brecqhou , a minor
island in the jurisdiction of Guernsey, by the Lord Lyon King of Arms
during the 1980s. I have no more details to hand, except that this is a
personal flag of the individual in question, rather than a flag of the
island and was taken by the former owner with him when he sold the island
on.
Roy Stilling, 14 March 1996
It was warranted on 23 November 1967 by Lord Lyon. It's the same as the
flag of Sark with the two lions confined to the inner canton of the flag and
not dispersed over the left arm of the St George's cross as well as the canton,
and with the shield of Brecqhou in the lower fly canton. I can't described it
very well: roughly, there are three sea-gulls(?) over two and two half vair
over three trefoils. I don't know the colours. There is a black and white drawing
in Flagmaster 75/76.
David Prothero, 31 March 1998
In an approximately-coloured drawing I received from Derkwillem Visser,
there are: two (not three) white rectangles (sea-gulls?) on a red field in
the top of the shield; two white vair over two and half blue vair in the
center part of the shield; three green trefoils (two over one) on a yellow
field in the lower part of the shield. As Roy (and Flagmaster 075/076)
pointed out, this was presumably the personal flag of the previous owner of
the island as it shows the coat of arms of the Matchan family.
Armand Noel du Payrat, 31 March 1998