Order of the War Banner

Order of the War Banner
Order with a ribbon
Country	SFR Yugoslavia Serbia and Montenegro
Type	Order
Eligibility	Military commanders
Awarded for	Personal courage, self-sacrifice, ivolvement in commanding and distinct role in creation, fixing and training of Armed Forces of SFRY during the war
Status	Dissolved
Statistics
Established	29 December 1951
First awarded	1954
Total awarded	209
Precedence
Next (higher)	Order of the People's Liberation
Next (lower)	Order of the Yugoslav Flag

Order of the War Banner (Croatian: Red ratne zastave, Macedonian: Ред на војна знамињата, Slovene: Red vojne zastave, Serbian: Орден војне заставе) was decoration of SFR Yugoslavia, 7th highest decoration. Order was founded by Presidency of People's Assembly on 29 December 1951. It was awarded for military merits to "military commanders who show personal courage, self-sacrifice, ivolvement in commanding and distinct role in creation, fixing and training of Armed Forces of SFRY during the war".

Public competition was annonced for creation of Order of the War Banner. Result of the competiotion was published in Politika on 27 August 1953. The winner was architect from Belgrade Grigorij Samojlov.

From establishment of the order in 1951 until 1984, there was 209 recipients of the order; 204 of them are Yugoslav citizens, while other 4 were Soviet generals (who were awarded in 1964).

Decoration was dissolved on 4 December 1998. Before that it was also used by Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and later by a state union Serbia and Montenegro.

See also

• Orders, decorations, and medals of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Sources

• Opća enciklopedija. Jugoslavenski leksikografski zavod. Zagreb. 1980. (Croatian)
• Prister, Boris. Odlikovanja. Povijesni muzej hrvatske. Zagreb. 1984. (Croatian)