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Guidon may refer to: *
Guidon (heraldic flag) In heraldry and vexillology, a heraldic flag is a flag containing coats of arms, heraldic badges, or other devices used for personal identification. Heraldic flags include banners, standards, pennons and their variants, gonfalons, guidons, and ...
, a type of heraldic flag *
Guidon (Commonwealth) In military organizations, the practice of carrying colours (or colors), standards, flags, or guidons, both to act as a rallying point for troops and to mark the location of the commander, is thought to have originated in Ancient Egypt som ...
, a swallow tailed flag for the colours of a light cavalry regiment * Guidon (Portugal), a ''guião'' (small square guidon) is carried by each unit of battalion size *
Guidon (United States) In the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, a guidon is a military standard or flag that company/battery/troop or platoon-sized detachments carry to signify their unit designation and branch/corps affiliation or th ...
, a military standard * Guidon Club, an anti-woman's suffrage club founded by Helen Kendrick Johnson


People

* Niède Guidon *
Giachem Guidon Giachem Guidon (born 4 September 1961 in Bever) is a Swiss cross-country skier who competed from 1982 to 1994. Competing in four Winter Olympics, he earned his best career finish of fourth in the 4 × 10 km relay at Calgary in 1988 and hi ...
* Anita Moen-Guidon


Publications

* The GUIDON, Official Newspaper of the Ateneo de Manila University


See also

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Colours, standards and guidons In military organizations, the practice of carrying colours (or colors), standards, flags, or guidons, both to act as a rallying point for troops and to mark the location of the commander, is thought to have originated in Ancient Egypt som ...
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Guidon Games Guidon Games produced board games and rulebooks for wargaming with miniatures, and in doing so influenced Tactical Studies Rules (later TSR, Inc.), the publisher of '' Dungeons & Dragons''. The ''Guidon Games'' publishing imprint was the prope ...
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