Talk:The Lighthorsemen (film)

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Historical inaccuracies

The german fag on Kressenstein's car is in the movie red-white-black, in reality the flag of the german empire was the other way round black-white-red. Could someone who has english as mother language add that to the article? I think my english is too limited. Holesandt (talk) 18:45, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Someone deleted this info again. Please tell me the reasons in case you want to delete it again... Eromae (talk) 15:10, 24 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Personally I didn't care enough to remove it myself, but technically this is just trivia and should be relocated into an approved WP:MOSFILM section such as production, which is difficult to do without a reference. Generic lists of trivia, including 'mistakes' should be avoided, and as always any unreferenced information may be challenged and removed. There are certainly valid grounds for deleting the information. Freikorp (talk) 15:34, 24 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"Also the Australia flag depicted was incorrect it showed the stars on a blue back ground it was not until 1953 that the Australian flag was changed to this, prior to 1953 the stars were on a red background." This is not strictly true. The 1953 legislation merely clarified that the blue ensign was the correct national flag. It did not change the colour from red to blue, the blue ensign was already extensively used before this particularly in relation to the Commonwealth Government. Prior to 1953 the situation was a little hazy - in theory the blue ensign was for the commonwealth government use and the red ensign for civilian use. Sources I've seen suggest the blue and red ensigns (and the British flag) were used at various times during WW1. If there is something to suggest the red ensign (civil flag) was used in the instances shown in the film, there needs to be a source referenced if you are going to claim it is an error. Tigerman2005 (talk) 00:45, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Recent article edits that need verification (moved from main page):

Furthermore, the 4th Light Horse Regiment, the Regiment depicted in the film, did not in reality wear emu plumes in their slouch hats, as it is depicted in the film.
Not sure but the blue ensign did not come about until the 1950's and was never used for maritime.
The first "Australian flag" was the red ensign.

JabberJaw (talk) 10:02, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

In the historical inaccuracies section, the issue is that there's nothing to say what flag arrangements were actually put in place by the allies once Beersheba was captured. I don't see that the source provided really goes to show that a red ensign was flown on the day. Wishing there was an inaccuracy here doesn't make it so. I know that the blue ensign was adopted as the saluting flag for the army in 1911 actually. There does seem to be quite a few blue ensigns from the first world war on display at the Australian War Memorial and elsewhere. So I've taken the initiative to remove this part while we find a more relevant source than the one we've got.

Robbiegibbons (talk) 07:42, 5 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]