Franceso Domenico Chiarello

Francesco Domenico Chiarello (November 5, 1898 – June 27, 2008), Knight of Vittorio Veneto, was, at age 109, one of the last two soldiers (along with Fernand Goux) in the world to see action in both World Wars, as Briton Sydney Lucas was still in training when World War I ended and Claude Choules was a seaman. Chiarello was also one of the last two surviving Italian and Alpine Front veterans of the First World War, along with fellow 109-year-old Delfino Borroni. Called up in 1918, he enlisted in the Castrovillari. He spent three months in training and then served as an infantryman at Cosenza. First sent to the front line in Trentino, he was later sent by sea from the port of Taranto to Albania. There he contracted malaria, but recovered...