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Old January 20th, 2008, 09:44 PM
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Default WWI vet died.

Louis de Cazenave, one of the last French "poilus" WWI vet (1914-18), died at the age of 110 ans


Born 16 octobre 1897, Louis de Cazenave was the oldest surviving French WWI vet. He fought from 1916 in the 5th Senegalese bataillon . in 1919, after the war he became a railroad worker.

He will have a nationwide funeral.




The last French WWI survivor is Lazare Ponticelli, born 7 décembre 1897.
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