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Légion d'Honneur [France]

Country:France
Established:19 May 1802, by Napoleon Bonaparte.
Criteria:For military and civil service. The Legion of Honor is currently France's premier order.
Légion d'Honneur

Recipients - World War I Aces
FranceMarius Ambrogi - 11 August 1918

FranceMaurice Arnoux - 13 July 1919

USAPaul Baer - 9 April 1919

EnglandOwen Baldwin

FranceBernard Barny de Romanet

FranceFrancois Battesti

USACharles Biddle - 9 April 1919

CanadaWilliam Bishop - 2 November 1918

FranceMaurice Boyau

USADouglas Campbell

USAThomas Cassady

FranceAndre Chainat - 3 August 1916

USAReed Chambers - 29 November 1918

FranceJean Chaput - 4 June 1916

FranceMichel Coiffard - March 1918

USAEverett Cook

BelgiumWilly Coppens

RussiaPavel d'Argueff - 7 May 1915

FrancePierre de Cazenove de Pradines - 9 September 1918

FranceGilbert de Guingand - 17 June 1918

FranceOmer Demeuldre - Posthumous

FranceRené Dorme - 18 October 1916

FranceRené Doumer - 17 September 1914

FranceRené Fonck - 21 October 1917

FranceJean Fraissinet - 9 November 1918

FranceHector Garaud - 26 March 1918

FrancePaul Gastin

FranceGabriel Guérin - 27 February 1918

FranceGeorges Guynemer - 24 December 1915

FranceFernand Guyou - 16 October 1918

FranceClaude Haegelen - 19 July 1918

FranceAlfred Heurtaux - 4 August 1916

FranceMarcel Hugues - 28 August 1917

USAFrank Hunter

USADavid Ingalls

BelgiumFernand Jacquet

FranceLucien Jailler - 8 July 1916

RussiaAlexander Kozakov

FranceGeorges Lachmann - 6 January 1917

FranceAuguste Lahoulle - 30 December 1914

FranceMaxime Lenoir - 9 August 1916

USARaoul Lufbery - 29 January 1917

CanadaGeorge MacKay - 8 February 1919

CanadaDonald MacLaren - 15 July 1919

FranceGeorges Madon - 5 May 1917

FrancePierre Marinovitch - 26 July 1918

CanadaRedford Mulock - 14 September 1917

ScotlandIan Napier

FranceJean Navarre - 2 August 1915

FranceCharles Nungesser - 4 December 1915

BelgiumJan Olieslagers

FranceAdolphe Pègoud - 28 August 1915

FranceArmand Pinsard - 7 September 1916

USADavid Putnam - 11 November 1918

CanadaErnest Salter - 30 November 1918

FranceJean Sardier - 30 June 1918

USASumner Sewall

USAEdward Rickenbacker - 18 December 1918

FrancePaul Tarascon - 15 November 1916

USAWilliam Thaw - 18 June 1916

FranceDel Vial - 24 August 1918

FrancePaul Waddington - 9 November 1918


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