FLAG 1916-1917

Civil Ensign 1910-1917 (?)

image by Miles Li and Eugene Ipavec
From the Singha Beer source:

Khakhai (Merchant-Marine Flag) [ie. Civil Ensign]
This is a rectangular flag with two white parallel stripes on a plain red background. The flag was first used following an amendment to Royal Decree (R.S.129) issued in B.E.2453 [1910 AD]. Later on however, it was abolished following another amendment, a Royal Decree – Article Two – issued in B.E.2460 [1917 AD].

The image above could well be an ill rendering of the 1916-1917 flag. The only question remains as to the year of approval, 1910 or 1916. Perhaps it was approved in 1910 as a civil ensign and in 1916 as national flag? Santiago Dotor, 12 Nov 1999
1:1:2:1:1 flag was adopted by Rama VI by Decree No. 129 in 1911 as a merchant flag. Most European flag books reported the flag wrongly.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 23 Jul 2004

In 1917, the national flag was again changed, to five equally wide horizontal stripes R/W/R/W/R. King Rama VI considered that his people cannot afford the elephant flag since it was made in foreign countries. So they mostly used white and red cloth instead of the national flag. Occasionally, the national flag with a white elephant was flown upsidedown by mistake. To solve the problem, the King declared to use the red flag with horizontal white stripes as the national flag.