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Corrections

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)[reply]