The Portuguese army flag is red with a golden lion holding a sword. Both sources depict the sword as Argent hilted Or but not as Or.
Sources:
here,
this photo,
here and
here João Madureira, 2 May 1998, Zoltan Horvath and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Oct 2024, António Martins-Tuválkin, 2 Nov 2024
Source displays a 2nd flag (right on image), on which the lion holds an open book Or by his sinister forepaw. Regarding the flag with book on that picture, this is flag of the Military Academy.
Sources:
military academy webpage and
herehere Zoltan Horvath and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Oct 2024
The Army’s heraldic flags are for use on parade, and are
divided into:
flammes for companies, or equivalent;
guidons de mérite, for platoons or companies which, having
performed a feat of arms of exceptional worth, have been awarded a
decoration equivalent to, or greater than, the War Cross 1st Class;
étendards for regiments or equivalent, and exceptionally
for independent companies and battalions;
gaillardets for generals exercising command, in command of
Arms or Services, or members of the government.
Unit heraldic flags always accompany the commanding
officer on parades.
[sjcXX] quotes from the regulations
— decree 24107 of 3rd June 1969, published in L’Ordre de
l’Armée 1st series, no.6 of 30th June 1969:
Flamme: an isoceles triangle, bearing the symbol of
the unit, either painted or embroidered.
Flamme pour marquage: 0.375 m × 0.25 m;
Flamme pour hisser: 0.5 m × 0.25 m
Guidon: 0.75m square, bearing a plain, or parti-coloured
border around the arms (or device) of the unit. Embroidered in gold, silver
and silk. Cords and tassels in the heraldic livery colours. The flag is
attached to the staff by three broad loops. There is a second horizontal staff
at right angles to the main staff to keep the flag deployed.
Guidon de mérite: red with a yellow rampant lion, holding
in its right claws an antique sword, whilst above is an inscription in gold
giving details of the feat of arms, all within a gold border charged
with laurel leaves. Size and staff as the guidon.
Etendart: 1m square. Divided geometrically with a border
of the “appropriate” metals and tinctures. It is possible to add a
cross or saltire of a suitable metal or tincture. In the centre is a circular
scroll bearing the unit’s name or motto; this encloses the unit coat of
arms, sometimes with a laurel wreath. At each corner of the sheet can be
added either the unit’s abbreviation or number. It is also possible to add
inscriptions about the unit’s feats of arms on the sheet, especially on the
border, but never on the arms or the cross. Cords and tassels in the heraldic
livery colours.
Gaillardet: square, except for use on vehicles, when it is
0.4 m × 0.3 m. Generals commanding Arms and Services have a plain
flag bearing their respective shields superimposed on the emblem of the Arm or
Service. Generals commanding formations, Quarter-Master General,
Adjutant-General, Vice-Chief of Army Staff, Inspector-General, and Chief
of Army Staff bear a flag with a border in a tincture and a metal,
around “the proper symbol”. Those of members of the Government bear the
“proper symbol” without the border.
klaus-michael schneider
![[Portuguese army flag]](../images/p/pt^a.gif)
2:3, image by Zoltan Horvath, 26 Oct 2024
See also:
![[Portuguese military academy flag]](../images/p/pt^milac.gif)
2:3, image by Zoltan Horvath, 26 Oct 2024
