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The Army Council prohibited the markings in 1931 because use of the red cross was forbidden under the Geneva Convention Act of 1911. After years of dispute, the flag field and funnel band were changed to very pale buff, scarcely distinguishable from white at a distance. FOTW records occasional sightings of the red cross into the 1960s. The design was the same as that used by Headlam & Sons before 1934. Sources differ on the cross’s thickness; Reed 1891 leaves the white flag without its device, which Rosanoski considers unfinished.