laterwork branch death_place death_date birth_place allegiance unit awards birth_date rank article_title name
he world war ii rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel by infantry ; aviation saint-baudelle 11 february 1986 lyon , france france 141e , escadrille 154 , escadrille 31 regiment d'infanterie , escadrille 67 , escadrille 12 '' legion d'honneur '' , '' croix de guerre 28 october 1893 lieutenant colonel paul y. r. waddington
 paul yvan robert waddington
paul y. r. waddington

sous lieutenant paul yvan robert waddington was a french world war i flying ace credited with twelve aerial victories .
waddington joined the 141e regiment d'infanterie on 15 december 1914 as a soldat de 2e classe .
he was promoted to corporal on 21 june 1915 ; exactly a month later , he was forwarded to the 2e groupe d'aviation .
on 27 september , he was assigned to escadrille 67 .
he was promoted to sergeant while with this unit , on 11 march 1916 .
waddington reported for pilot 's training at buc on 3 september 1916 .
he was awarded military pilot 's brevet no. 5254 on 26 january 1917 , and forwarded for advanced training at avord , and then pau .
he was then posted as a pilot with escadrille n12 -lrb- the `` n '' denoting the unit 's use of nieuports -rrb- on 28 march 1917 .
he teamed with alfred auger and joseph m. x. de sévin for his first victory on 11 may 1917 .
a promotion to adjutant followed on 20 july 1917 , with a further promotion to sous lieutenant on 25 january 1918 .
he transferred to escadrille spa154 -lrb- which operated spads -rrb- , on 6 march 1918 .
between 12 april and 22 august 1918 , he ran off a string of five victories each over enemy airplanes and observation balloons , with all but one of the wins being shared with such fellow french aces as xavier moissinac , paul barbreau , louis prosper gros , michel coiffard , jacques ehrlich , and balloon buster theophile condemine .
on 19 september 1918 , he was transferred to his final wartime post , with escadrille spa31 .
he scored his final triumph solo ten days later .
on 9 november 1918 , he was awarded the `` legion d'honneur '' to accompany his prior awards of the `` croix de guerre '' with five `` palmes '' , one `` etoile de vermeil '' , one `` etoile d'argent '' , and another `` etoile de bronze '' .
he had also won a belgian `` croix de guerre '' and a serbian decoration .
waddington would later rise to lieutenant colonel and command a school for fighter pilots before world war ii .
