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Talk:James Waddell (army officer)

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There seems to be a number of misunderstandings about the service of Waddel in the French Army. I corrected some of these.

  • "He was also one of the few foreigners to reach senior rank in the French Foreign Legion."
    • Waddel was not a foreign national serving as a senior officer in the FFL, like Count Aage of Rosenborg, but a naturalized Frenchman, like Dimitri Amilakhvari,. He held a direct-entry commission based on his prior service in the British Army.
  • "thus the Croix de guerre was won eight times at the highest level, that of citation at the army level"