Talk:James Waddell (army officer)
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Latest comment: 9 years ago by 78.232.54.121 in topic Corrections
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Corrections edit
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"
- A Palm is indeed the highest level of the French mention in dispatches system, above gold, silver and bronze stars, but there is no simple Croix de guerre. So a Croix de guerre avec sept palmes is seven awards, not eight. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.232.54.121 (talk) 13:48, 2 July 2014 (UTC)