WW1 in Alsace - Linge Battle - 63rd Anti Aircraft Regiment - 96th poste semi-fixed
| The surviving British veterants on October 30th, 2007 | ||
| Henry Allingham | 06/06/1896 | |
| Harry Patch | 17/06/1898 | |
| Phillip Mayne | 26/11/1899 | 09/04/2007 |
| William Young | 04/01/1900 | 24/07/2007 |
| Kenneth Cummins | 06/03/1900 | 11/12/2006 |
| The surviving Canadian veterants on October 30th, 2007 | ||
| Gladys Powers | 10/05/1899 | |
| Clemett, Victor Lloyd | 10/12/1899 | 21/02/2007 |
| John F. Babcock | 23/07/1900 | |
| Wilson, Dwight "Percy" | 26/02/1901 | 09/05/2007 |
| The last surviving German veterant on October 30th, 2007 | ||
| Meier Robert | 10/03/1897 | 29/01/2007 |
| Konrad Fuchs | 15/10/1897 | 13/11/2006 |
| Rudolf Seim | 03/01/1899 | 09/01/2007 |
| Wilhelm Velten | 02/09/1899 | 26/12/2006 |
| Wilhelm Remmert | 15/11/1899 | 27/05/2007 |
| Rudolf Christmann | 10/01/1900 | 27/06/2007 |
| Franz Künstler | 24/07/1900 | |
| Józef Kos | 27/09/1900 | 05/04/2007 |
| William Seegers | 24/10/1900 | 10/07/2007 |
| Walter Heiman | 12/03/1901 | 18/03/2007 |
| There are no more surviving Italian veteran on October 30th, 2007 | ||
| Italo Sarrocco | 11/05/1898 | 08/01/2007 |
| Giustino Tuveri | 15/05/1898 | 05/10/2007 |
| Alberto Agazzi | 30/01/1899 | 12/04/2007 |
| Pasquale Costanzo | 21/05/1899 | 10/05/2007 |
| Giovanni Antonio Carta | 28/12/1899 | 05/06/2007 |
| The surviving U. S. veterants on October 30th, 2007 | ||
| Emiliano Mercado del Toro | 21/08/1891 | 24/01/2007 |
| Moses Hardy | 06/01/1893 | 07/12/2006 |
| Ernest Pusey | 05/05/1895 | 19/11/2006 |
| Antonio Pierro | 22/02/1896 | 08/02/2007 |
| Charlotte Winters | 10/11/1897 | 27/03/2007 |
| Howard Verne Ramsey | 02/04/1898 | 22/02/2007 |
| Albert Frederick 'Jud' Wagner | 05/09/1899 | 20/01/2007 |
| Harry Landis | 12/12/1899 | |
| Russell Buchanan | 14/01/1900 | 06/12/2006 |
| Frank Buckles | 01/02/1901 | |
| Lloyd Brown | 07/10/1901 | 29/03/2007 |
| The surviving "Poilus" (French veterants) on October 30th, 2007 | ||||
| Maurice Floquet | 25/12/1894 | 10/11/2006 | Legion of Honor Officier | Infantryman, wounded in the face (gueule cassée) |
| Louis de Cazenave | 16/10/1897 | Legion of Honor Knight | Foreign Infantryman | |
| Lazare Ponticelli | 07/12/1897 | Legion of Honor Knight | Mountain infantryman | |
| Jean Grelaud | 26/10/1898 | 25/02/2007 | Legion of Honor Knight | Infantryman |
| René Riffaud | 18/12/1898 | 15/01/2007 | Legion of Honor Knight | Artilleryman |
| Raymond Guay | 11/02/1900 | 02/01/2007 | (Is not considered as war veteran) | Air army ground soldier, volountary |
| Raymond Cambefort | 17/04/1900 | (Is not considered as war veteran) | Infantryman, voluntary | |
French Department of War Veteran
November, 2007
Mr Lazare Ponticelli (109 year-old), one of the last two surviving "Poilus" (french soldiers of WW I) participated as every year on November 11th, in the moving commemorative ceremony of the end of the Great War (1914-1918). He came and paid a tribute to his companions fallen for France during this war, in the presence of a large crowd.
This ceremony took place (as every year) in front of the War Memorial of his town, Kremlin-Bicêtre, near Paris, in the departement of Val-de-Marne. In spite of the cold and his old age, Lazare Ponticelli, accompanied by the authorities, walked to the War Memorial, to lay down a bunch of flowers. That's what he does every year, as he had promised to one of his companions.
He commented on his attending this ceremony regularly by declaring a few years ago : " the horror of this war, I shall not forget it, neither for me nor for those who died. That is why I go on November 11th to the war memorial ".
Interviewed at the end of the ceremony this November 11th, 2007, this veterant of the Foreign Legion, was happy to notice that young people joined more and more to this event, reminded " the importance of the memory, and that it was necessary to learn from the history".