The picture above my second links lists on the left is the White Dragon Flag of England. This was England's flag before the Norman Conquest, when St Edmund the Martyr was still England's patron saint. It is the counterpart of the Red Dragon of Wales.
I found this particular version of the image on a flickr site here. There is a website about it here.
It is possible, in fact, that England never actually used the White Dragon. But its origins almost certainly go back to the Golden Dragon on a scarlet background that was the banner of the Kings of Wessex, who went on to unite and rule the rest of England.
The House of Wessex was the oldest royal house of the English kings. Moreover the British monarchy traces its ancestry back to Wessex to this day.
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