Lazare Ponticelli

Lazare Ponticelli , 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.

Born as Lazzaro Ponticelli in Groppo Ducale, a frazione in Bettola, Piacenza, EmiliaRomagna, in northern Italy, he was raised in the mountain hamlet of I Cordani, one of seven children born to Jean and Philomne Ponticelli. His father sold livestock on the fairgrounds and occasionally worked as a carpenter and cobbler.

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