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After 40 years, 'the little green flags' has become an award 'identifying the spirit of adventure with crossing the barriers that divide people,' inaugurated by Prince Philip in London, endorsed in Auckland, New Zealand, presented in Canada, Delhi, and Lusaka, and most recently at the 1997 summit in Edinburgh in the presence of Commonwealth Leaders who were invited to be the guardians of The Green Pennant Awards. The Story of Comex in Song ends with an expression of gratitude to the late Pipe Major Angus MacDonald MBE, to President Kenneth Kaunda and The Heritage Singers of Zambia, and to the band of the 2^nd King Edward V11's Own Goorkhas.

The High Commissioner for Zambia, Love Mtesa, receives the master model of The Green Pennant Awards, designed by Garrard of London and Hamilton and Inches of Edinburgh, during the Edinburgh Festival of 1996 – Zambia having agreed to act as the custodian.