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Ramire Rosan
Ramire Rosan (14 April 1895 – 24 May 2004) was the last World War I veteran from the overseas departments and territories of France. Grandson of a slave, he was born in Morne-à-l'Eau, Guadeloupe, where he was cultivating sugar cane. Mounted gendarmes came to pick him up and sent him immediately to a base, he was enlisted to the twenty-third regiment of the colonial infantry. In July 1916 he took part in the Battle of the Somme, where he was gassed
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Noteworthy recipients (partial list).
- Resistance fighter André Girard
- General Jeannou Lacaze
- General Marcel Letestu
- General Pierre Garbay
- General Antoine Béthouart
- Private René Riffaud
- Private Ramire Rosan
- Private Léon Weil
- Resistance fighter René-Georges Laurin
- Commander Philippe Kieffer
- Squadron leader René Mouchotte
- Sergeant Eugene Bullard
- Henri d'Orléans, Count of Paris
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