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Lazarre Ponticelli
Allegiance	1914-1915 : France 1915-1918 : Italy
Service / branch	French Legion Italian Army
Years of service	1914 – 1918
Battles / wars	World War I

Lazarre Ponticelli (born December 7, 1897) is, at age 110, one of the last surviving French veterans of the First World War and is currently the oldest living man born in Italy, the second-oldest man living in France, and the 12th oldest in the world.

Ponticelli was born "Làzzaro" in Alseno, Piacenza, Italy. In 1907, when he was nine years old, he moved to France, and more than six years later, in 1914, he joined the French Foreign Legion at age 16. Lazarre saw action against Germany, and was wounded shortly after his entering of service in 1914. Ponticelli was discharged from the French Foreign Legion, and later joined the Italian Army in 1915. Lazarre was wounded again versus the Austrians in Tyrol. Hit in the head by artillery, he miraculously survived.

During the 1930s, he founded a piping and metal work company with his brothers called "Ponticelli Frères" (= "Ponticelli Brothers"), which became wealthy and still exists today and is well-known in his field.

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