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Pages in category "French military personnel of World War I" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 587 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This is a list of the last known surviving veterans of the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) who lived to 1999 or later, along with the last known veterans for countries that participated in the war. Veterans are defined as people who were members of the armed forces of the combatant nations during the conflict, although some ...
French infantry pushing through enemy barbed wire, 1915. During World War I, France was one of the Triple Entente powers allied against the Central Powers.Although fighting occurred worldwide, the bulk of the French Army's operations occurred in Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Alsace-Lorraine along what came to be known as the Western Front, which consisted mainly of trench warfare.
Most of its veteran members were set to work training newly arrived American pilots. The 103rd was credited with a further 45 kills before the Armistice went into effect on 11 November. [16] The French Escadrille SPA.124, also known as the Jeanne d'Arc Escadrille, continued Lafayette Escadrille's traditions in the Service Aéronautique.
Medal of French Gratitude; 1914–1918 Inter-Allied Victory medal; Medal for civilian prisoners, deportees and hostages of the 1914–1918 Great War;
French Veteran of the French intervention in Mexico, Brunet distinguished himself in Japan where he was sent as member of a group of military advisors. Brunet received two medals from Japan for his actions during the Boshin War. It appear that he inspired the character of Captain Nathan Algren in the 2003 movie The Last Samurai. Oscar de Négrier
Lazare Ponticelli (born Lazzaro Ponticelli; 24 December 1897, later mistranscribed as 7 December – 12 March 2008), Knight of Vittorio Veneto, was at 110, the last surviving officially recognized veteran of the First World War from France and the last poilu of its trenches to die.
Harry Patch (1998), (UK) Britain's last surviving First World War veteran. Appointed Officer in 2009 [70] Fairuz (1998), (Lebanon), singer, awarded the Légion d'honneur by President Jacques Chirac. [71] Arthur James Jerram awarded the Lègion d'honneur at 103 years in 1998 for service in WW1 campaign – Egyptian & Egyptian EF & Western European.