![]() ![]() ![]() By June the prince had been shot in the left thigh at the Battle of El Mers receiving the Croix de Guerre. In the spring of 1923 he was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 2 e Etrangere (2nd Regiment) in Morocco, where the Legion was then heavily engaged in the Middle Atlas mountains. He secured permission from the King to resign his commission in order to enlist in the French Foreign Legion and did so in 1922. After the war, he visited the US and spent some time in France before returning to Denmark. In 1909 he entered the Danish army and, in 1913, was commissioned a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Life Guards. When he was 14 years old a lieutenant from the Foreign Legion visited his family and he became enraptured with his stories. Prince Aage (1887-1940) was the great-great grandson of French King Louis-Philippe (founder of the French Foreign Legion). ![]()
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