The Order of the Cloud and Banner () also known as the Order of the Resplendent Banner is a military award of the

Republic of China Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeas ...

. It was instituted on June 15, 1935 and is awarded in nine grades for contributions to national security.ODM of Taiwan: The Order of Clouds and Banner
/ref> The insignia of the order features a fluttering yellow flag, surrounded by white clouds on a blue field. This image is surrounded by golden rays.

Grades

The order is divided into nine grades, they are as follows:

Recipients

International

Edward McGill Alexander Edward George McGill Alexander (born 31 March 1947) is a former South African Army officer. Alexander has participated in airborne exercises and conferences with the British Army, and has jumped with and been awarded parachute wings by the Ch ...

John R. Allen John Rutherford Allen (born December 15, 1953) is a retired United States Marine Corps four-star general, and former commander of the NATO International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces – Afghanistan (USFOR-A). On September 13, 2014, ...

* Henry H. Arnold *

Claude Auchinleck Field Marshal Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, (21 June 1884 – 23 March 1981), was a British Army commander during the Second World War. He was a career soldier who spent much of his military career in India, where he rose to become Commander ...

* Robert O. Bare * Gilbert Bartholomew RAF British Air Attaché to China 1943-46 *

John Birch (missionary) John Morrison Birch (May 28, 1918 – August 25, 1945) was a United States Army Air Forces military intelligence captain, OSS agent in China during World War II, as well as former Baptist minister and missionary. He was killed in a confron ...

Alan Bruce Blaxland Major-General Alan Bruce Blaxland, (17 October 1892 – 2 September 1963) was a senior British Indian Army officer during the Second World War. Early life and First World War Born on 17 October 1892, Blaxland was commissioned onto the Unattache ...

Charles Bond (pilot) Charles Rankin Bond, Jr. (April 22, 1915 – August 18, 2009) was an American pilot and United States Air Force officer. He served with the Flying Tigers in Burma and China during World War II. He was shot down twice and was credited with shooti ...

Leslie Bonnet Group Captain Leslie Bonnet (22 August 1902 – 10 December 1985) was an RAF officer, short-story writer and duck-breeder, creating the Welsh Harlequin Duck, the only true Welsh duck breed. Early life Bonnet was born 1902 in Watford, Hertfords ...

* Wilburt S. Brown * Joseph J. Cappucci *

Bernard Chacksfield Air Vice-Marshal Sir Bernard Albert Chacksfield, (13 April 1913 – 27 December 1999) was a senior Royal Air Force officer in the 1950s and 1960s and later a chief commissioner of The Scout Association and chairman of the Burma Star Association ...

* Prince Charles, Count of Flanders * Levi R. Chase * Claire Lee Chennault *

Philip Christison General Sir Alexander Frank Philip Christison, 4th Baronet, (17 November 1893 – 21 December 1993) was a British Army officer who served with distinction during the world wars. After service as a junior officer on the Western Front in the Fir ...

Vasily Chuikov Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov (russian: link=no, Васи́лий Ива́нович Чуйко́в; ; – 18 March 1982) was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union. He is best known for commanding the 62nd Army which saw h ...

Gareth Clayton (RAF officer) Air Chief Marshal Sir Gareth Thomas Butler Clayton, (13 November 1914 – 5 February 1992) was a senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Air Secretary from 1970 to 1972. RAF career Clayton joined the Royal Air Force in 1936. He served in ...

William T. Clement William Tardy Clement (September 27, 1894 – October 17, 1955) was a highly decorated general of the United States Marine Corps with the rank of Lieutenant general (United States), lieutenant general during World War II. He is most noted as com ...

* Henry Crowe (RAF officer) *

Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Browne Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, (7 January 1883 – 12 June 1963) was a senior officer of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. He was widely known by his initials, "ABC". Cunningham ...

* Sydney de Kantzow *

Gabriel P. Disosway General Gabriel Poillon Disosway (DIS-os-way; June 11, 1910 – February 23, 2001) was a noted United States Air Force four-star general and served as commander of the Tactical Air Command. Background A native of Pomona, California, Disosway wa ...

* Denis Earp * Dr.C. Dexter Ebertz DVM * Dwight D. Eisenhower * Peter Fleming *

William Foster MacNeece Foster Air Vice Marshal William Foster MacNeece Foster, (21 August 1889 – 28 March 1978) was a senior Royal Air Force officer who was a member of the Combined Chiefs of Staff from 1942 to 1943. He later became a member of Oxford City Council and Lo ...

* Julian N. Frisbie *

Guy Garrod Air Chief Marshal Sir Alfred Guy Roland Garrod, (13 April 1891 – 3 January 1965) was a senior British Royal Air Force officer. RAF career He was born the third eldest son of Herbert Baring Garrod, barrister-at-law and educated at Bradfield Co ...

Wallace M. Greene Wallace Martin Greene Jr. (December 27, 1907 – March 8, 2003) was a United States Marine Corps four-star general who served as the 23rd Commandant of the Marine Corps from January 1, 1964, to December 31, 1967. Greene served in China in the 19 ...

* Vernon M. Guymon * Hunter Harris Jr. *

Tex Hill David Lee "Tex" Hill (July 13, 1915 – October 11, 2007) was an American fighter pilot and triple flying ace. He is credited with victories as a squadron leader with the Flying Tigers and another six as an officer in the United States Army Ai ...

Bruce K. Holloway General Bruce Keener Holloway (September 1, 1912 – September 30, 1999) was a United States Air Force general. A West Point graduate, he was a fighter ace with the United States Army Air Forces in World War II and later served as Vice Chief of ...

* Frederick J. Horne *

Samuel L. Howard Samuel Lutz Howard (March 8, 1891 – October 12, 1960) was a United States Marine Corps general who served with distinction in the Marine Corps for thirty-eight years. In the early stages of World War II, General Howard commanded the 4th Ma ...

* Byron F. Johnson * Lt. General Sir Gordon Jolly *

Louis R. Jones Louis Reeder Jones (June 29, 1895 – February 2, 1973) was a highly decorated Major general (United States), major general in the United States Marine Corps during World War II. He was a recipient of Navy Cross for his service with 23rd Marine R ...

C. Turner Joy Charles Turner Joy (17 February 1895 – 6 June 1956) was an admiral of the United States Navy during World War II and the Korean War. During the last years of his career, while fighting leukemia, he served as Superintendent of the Naval Academy ...

Robert Halperin Robert Sherman "Bob" Halperin (January 26, 1908 – May 8, 1985), nicknamed "Buck", was an American Star class sailor, and Olympic bronze medalist and Pan American Games gold medalist. He was also a college and National Football League (NFL) fo ...

Robert P. Keller Robert Prescott Keller (February 9, 1920 – November 13, 2010) was a highly decorated Naval aviator in the United States Marine Corps with the rank of Lieutenant general (United States), lieutenant general. He began his career as reserve pilot d ...

Timofey Khryukin Timofey Timofeyevich Khryukin (russian: Тимофе́й Тимофе́евич Хрю́кин; , in Yeysk19 July 1953, in Moscow) was a Soviet aviator, Spanish Civil War volunteer, and colonel-general of the Soviet Air Force. Emerging from an imp ...

* Kim Hong-il * Willard A. Kitts * John P. Lucas * Robert B. Luckey * Alvin Luedecke *

Rodion Malinovsky Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky (russian: Родио́н Я́ковлевич Малино́вский, ukr, Родіо́н Я́кович Малино́вський ; – 31 March 1967) was a Soviet military commander. He was Marshal of the Sov ...

* Dr. Harold Marcus * Arthur T. Mason *

James M. Masters, Sr. James Marvin Masters Sr. (June 11, 1911 – August 5, 1988) was a United States Marine Corps Lieutenant general (United States), lieutenant general who during the course of his career served as a China Marines, China Marine, fought in numerou ...

* John H. Masters * Verne J. McCaul * Lt. Col. Alfred Medendorp () * Georg Meiring * Kirill Meretskov * Thomas Hinman Moorer *

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979) was a British naval officer, colonial administrator and close relative of the British royal family. Mountbatten, who was of German ...

* DeWitt Peck * Richard Peirse * Roy Benjamin Pitts * Earl S. Piper *

Chesty Puller Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller (June 26, 1898 – October 11, 1971) was a United States Marine Corps officer. Beginning his career fighting guerillas in Haiti and Nicaragua as part of the Banana Wars, he later served with distinction in World Wa ...

Mohan Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana Field-Marshal Shree Shree Shree Maharaja Sir Mohan Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana ( ne, मोहन शम्शेर जङ्गबहादुर राणा), GCB, GCIE, GBE (23 December 1885 – 6 January 1967) was the prime minister ...

* Edward F. Rector *

Keller E. Rockey Keller Emrick Rockey (September 22, 1888 – June 6, 1970) was a highly decorated Lieutenant General in the United States Marine Corps, who commanded the Fifth Marine Division in the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II and the Thir ...

* Richard P. Ross Jr. *

John Dale Ryan General John Dale Ryan (December 10, 1915 – October 27, 1983) was the seventh Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force. As chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, General Ryan served in a dual capacity. He was a member of the Joint Chiefs o ...

Alfredo M. Santos Alfredo Manapat Santos (July 13, 1905 – February 7, 1990) was Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines in 1962 to 1965, making him the first four-star general of the Philippines' armed forces. Early life Santos was born in Santa Cru ...

* Thomas G. W. Settle * Samuel R. Shaw *

Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr. Lemuel Cornick Shepherd Jr. (February 10, 1896 – August 6, 1990) was a four-star general of the United States Marine Corps. A veteran of World War I, World War II, and the Korean War, he was the 20th Commandant of the Marine Corps. As C ...

Austin Shofner Brigadier General Austin Conner Shofner (March 3, 1916 – November 13, 1999) was a United States Marine Corps officer who was captured during the Battle of Corregidor and then part of the only successful escape from a Japanese prisoner of war ...

* Robert T. Smith * Marcos Soliman *

George E. Stratemeyer Lieutenant General George Edward Stratemeyer (24 November 1890 – 9 August 1969) was a senior commander in the United States Air Force. He held senior command appointments in the China Burma India Theater of World War II and was Far East Air Fo ...

* Stepan Suprun * Rafael Cavanillas Prosper * Glen Syndercombe *

Carlos Talbott Carlos Maurice Talbott (January 28, 1920 – February 26, 2015) was a United States Air Force officer who attained the rank of Lieutenant General (United States), lieutenant general and was vice commander in chief of the Pacific Air Forces, ...

* Neil D. Van Sickle * Constand Viljoen *

John W. Vogt Jr. General John William Vogt Jr. (March 18, 1920 – April 16, 2010) was a flying ace of the United States Army Air Forces in World War II who later achieved general rank in the United States Air Force during the Cold War period. He was commander ...

* William Childs Westmoreland *

Lewis William Walt Lewis William Walt (February 16, 1913 – March 26, 1989) was a United States Marine Corps four-star general who served in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Walt was decorated several times, including two Navy Crosses for ...

Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, (5 May 1883 – 24 May 1950) was a senior officer of the British Army. He served in the Second Boer War, the Bazar Valley Campaign and the First World War, during which he was wounded ...

* William J. Whaling *

Isaac D. White Isaac Davis White (March 6, 1901 – June 11, 1990) was a senior officer in the United States Army who commanded the U.S. Army, Pacific (USARPAC) from July 1957 to March 1961. He was commissioned in the cavalry in 1923 and went on to serve in ...

* Frederick L. Wieseman * Louis E. Woods *

William A. Worton William Arthur Worton (January 4, 1897 – July 25, 1973) was a Marine Corps major general who served in the Pacific Theater during World War II. He was also an interim Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department from June 1949 to 1950. Ea ...

Harry E. Yarnell Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell (18 October 1875 – 7 July 1959) was an American naval officer whose career spanned over 51 years and three wars, from the Spanish–American War through World War II. Among his achievements was proving, in 1932 war g ...

* John C. Young * Lt. Col Alan "Jake" Engle (USAF)

Chinese generals

Chang Guan-chung Chang Guan-chung () is a general officer of the Republic of China Army (ROCA) in Taiwan. He was the Vice Minister of National Defense for Armaments from 28 April 2017 to 1 July 2021. Education Chang obtained his doctoral degree in aeronautical ...

Chen Changjie (general) Chen Changjie (; 2 June 1892 – 7 April 1968) was a KMT The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republ ...

Hu Zongnan Hu Zongnan (; 16 May 1896 – 14 February 1962), courtesy name Shoushan (壽山), was a Chinese general in the National Revolutionary Army and then the Republic of China Army. Together with Chen Cheng and Tang Enbo, Hu, a native of Zh ...

Huang Wei Huang Wei (; 1904–1989) was a Chinese Nationalist military general who fought in the Encirclement Campaigns, Second Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Civil War. Early life and career Huang was born into a rural intellectual family in Guixi, Jiang ...

Li Mi (Republic of China general) Li Mi (; 4 November 1902 – 10 March 1973) was a high-ranking Nationalist general who participated in the anti-Communist Encirclement Campaigns, Second Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Civil War. He was one of the few Kuomintang commanders to achi ...

Qiu Qingquan Qiu Qingquan (; 27 January 1902 – 10 January 1949) was a ROC Army general who excelled himself in Northern Expedition, anti-communist Encirclement Campaigns, Second Sino-Japanese War, and Chinese Civil War. In the Huaihai Campaign, which wa ...

* Shen Yi-ming *

Yen Teh-fa Yen Teh-fa (; born 14 November 1952) is a Taiwanese politician and retired general of the Republic of China Army. His ancestral home was in Nanjing. He was previously the Minister of National Defense and the secretary-general of the National Secur ...

* Zheng Dongguo

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