Frederick Brownell

Frederick Gordon Brownell

Awards and Commendations Brownell was the recipient of the following:

Order for Meritorious Service (OMSS), Class II: Silver Southern Cross Medal (1975) (SM) and bar Military Merit Medal (MMM) General Service Medal Unitas Medal John Chard Decoration (JCD) Republic of Venda Police Star of Merit Republic of Venda Prison's Service Establishment Medal Knight of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (KStJ) Cross of Merit of Robert Caluwe (instituted by the Heraldic Societies in the Baltic region for services to international heraldry) Gold Commemorative Medallion of the South West Africa Territory Force William Harvey Medal of the South African Blood Transfusion Service Archives News Literary Prize (1990) Vexillon Award of the International Federation of Vexillological Associations (1995 and 2015) Fellow of the International Federation of Vexillological Associations (FF) Fiat Lux Award by the family of St. Andrew's School (Bloemfontein) South African National Defence Force Emblem for Voluntary Service Honorary Life Member of the Southern African Vexillological Association Laureate of the International Federation of Vexillological Associations (LF)

Publications Brownell's works include:

Books

Nasionale en Provinsiale Simbole en Flora- en Fauna-embleme van die Republiek van Suid-Afrika, C. van Rensburg Publications. 1993 National symbols of the Republic of South Africa, Chris van Rensburg Publications, 1995

Consolidated index to the South African Armorial (1989, 1990, 1992, 1997, 2001) Index to local and regional authorities which have registered arms, badges and seals with the Bureau of Heraldry (1990, 1991, 1997) Alphabetical index to South African Defence Force heraldic representations registered with the Bureau of Heraldry (1991, 1997, 2000) Names, Uniforms and Badges – a computerised record of the registrations under the Protection of Names, Uniforms and Badges Act, 1935, Vols. 1 – 4 (2000)

Journal articles and reports

Report on the Transformation of National Orders in South Africa, co-authored with Dr Y Muthien and General L Moloi, 1998 South African Military Colours – 1664 to 26 April 1994 Part II Vol.1 – Military Colours of the Union Defence Forces and of the South African Defence Force : 1 July 1912 to 30 May 1961, co-authored with Prof H H Smith, SAVA Journal SJ: 8/99, December 1999 South African Military Colours – 1664 to 26 April 1994 Part II Vol.2 – Military Colours of the Union Defence Forces and of the South African Defence Force : 1 July 1912 to 30 May 1961 : Colours devised for the Commandos of the South African Defence Forces prior to World War II, co-authored with Prof H H Smith, SAVA Journal SJ:9, July 2005 South African Military Colours – 1664 to 26 April 1994 Part III Vol. 1 – Military Colours of the South African Defence Force 31 May 1961 to 26 April 1994 : The National Colour and Colours devised for the South African Army, co-authored with Prof H H Smith, SAVA Journal SJ:10, June 2011 South African Military Colours – 1664 to 26 April 1994 Part III Vol. 2 – Military Colours of the South African Defence Force 31 May 1961 to 26 April 1994 : Colours devised for the South African Air Force, Navy, Medical Service and the South African Police, co-authored with Prof H H Smith, SAVA Journal SJ:11, December 2017 The Union Jack over Southern and Central Africa, 1795 – 1994, SAVA Journal SJ: 3/94, October 1994 Some Southern African Flags, 1949 – 1991, SAVA Journal SJ: 1/92, April 1992 Symbolism in the coats of arms of Special Schools for the Cerebral Palsied, in Education and Culture, II, 2, June 1978 The Bureau of Heraldry, its establishment, functions and procedures, in Education and Culture, V, I, March/June 1982 Heraldry in South Africa, in Optima, Vol. 32, 4, December 1984 (subsequently reprinted in The New Zealand Armiger, 18, December 1990) Finnish Influence on South African Heraldic Design, in the Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences, Helsinki, 1984 Historic Flags of South Africa, in the Report of the 11th International Congress of Vexillology, Madrid, 1985 Heraldry in Natal, in Natalia, 17, December 1987 New Southern African Flags, in the Proceedings of the 12th International Congress of Vexillology, 1987, published in The Flag Bulletin, XVIII, 1 – 4/130, Jan – Aug 1990 The Evolution of the Coat of Arms and Flags of South West Africa and Namibia, published in 8 parts in Archives News, XXXII, 11 May 1990 – XXXIII, 6, December 1990 Kruger Gray's bookplate for South Africa House, London, in Africana Society of Pretoria, Yearbook 8, 1990 Symbols for Namibia, in The Flag Bulletin, XXXI, 1 – 2/145, Jan – April 1992 Heraldic adaptation in the Southern African context, in Genealogica & Heraldica, the Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences, Uppsala, 1992 The flags of the Diggers' Republic, in Fahnen Flags Drapeaux, the Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Vexillology, Zurich, 1993 Some Bookplates in the Brenthurst Library, in Brenthurst Archives, I, 1, 1994 The design of the new South African national flag, SABS Bulletin, XIII, 3, May/June 1994 (subsequently reprinted in the Journal of the Dental Association of South Africa, Vol. 49, II, November 1994) Creating an interim flag for South Africa, in The Flag Bulletin, XXXIII, 3/158, May – June 1994 (co-authored with B B Berry, D de Waal and T Stylianides) The evolution of a distinctive South African heraldic idiom, 1963–1996, in Genealogica & Heraldica, the Proceedings of the 22nd International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences, Ottawa, 1996 The Cartoonist's view of the South African National Flag, in Flags in Southern Africa and the World, the Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Vexillology, Cape Town, 1997 The Seal of the Republic of South Africa – a little oversight?, in Arma (New Series), Vol. 4, 1–2, December 1998 Flags of the Uniformed and other services in the former African 'Homelands' of South Africa, in Flags from Sea to Sea, the Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Vexillology, Victoria, British Columbia, 1999