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  • Italy's Last World War One Veteran Dies at 110

    01/29/2005 5:13:27 PM PST · by BroncosFan · 13 replies · 1,771+ views
    Reuters ^ | January 25, 2005
    Italy's Last World War One Veteran Dies at 110 Tue Jan 25, 2005 7:55 AM ET ROME (Reuters) - Italy lost its last veteran from World War One this week when Carlo Orelli, popularly known as "the last infantryman," died at the age of 110, the government said Tuesday. Orelli fought as a foot-soldier in the trenches around Trieste which is now part of north-eastern Italy. As Italy's oldest survivor of the 1914-1918 war, he was a minor celebrity and a book based on his wartime diaries was published last year. President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi paid tribute to a soldier...