At 106, French veteran remembers life in World War I trenches
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The handshake is firm, the gaze is clear and the expression still alert. At 106, Ferdinand Gilson can never get out of his mind the six months he spent in the trenches of the Western Front.
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ANDR HUE entered the Second World War while having a shower aboard the French liner Champlain, which struck a mine off La Rochelle on June 18, 1940.
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France marks the 100th day in captivity in Iraq of French journalists Georges Malbrunot and Christian Chesnot.
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Russell A. Buchanan, one of the nation's last surviving World War I veterans, has died. He was 106.
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A Victoria Cross awarded to a veteran of the World War I battle of Gallipoli has set a new world record after a collection of his medals sold at auction for one million dollars (750,000 US).
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Thousands of people are gathering to pay tribute to the half-million soldiers who died 90 years ago on Flanders Fields, one of World War I's bloodiest battles.
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Sixty years ago, Andrew Tokar, 82, of Brownsville, was on the move in Luxembourg with the 28th Division, 109th Infantry trying to stay a step ahead of the advancing German army.
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Indian Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee paid homage to the thousands of Indians killed in Europe in the First World War.
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At age 75, Giuseppe Simonetta is young among his peers. He's one of hundreds of aging war veterans in Canada.
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LOS ANGELES  - The French are no longer  alone.
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The 60th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge arrives today, bringing a sense of solemn memory for those who were there and a bit of confusion for those who weren&#39;t.
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J. Russell Coffey, the oldest known surviving U.S. veteran of World War I, has died. The retired teacher, one of only three U.S. veterans from the "war to end all wars," was 109.
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A British soldier's postcard to his sweetheart has finally arrived &#151; 92 years after he sent it from the trenches of World War I.
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Parisians turned out to see French and US military columns roll through their capital in an exuberant re-enactment of the day 60 years ago when Allied forces liberated the city from German occupation.
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World War I veteran Louis de Cazenave died Sunday at age 110, his son said, leaving just one known French survivor of the 1914-1918 conflict.
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BRUSSELS -- An elder statesman of French literature who fought for the Resistance in World War II is gearing up to do battle again, in Brussels: Maurice Druon, 89, is campaigning to make French the supreme language of legal documents in the European Union.
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When British veteran Charles Grocett first saw the Ginkelse Heide, a piece of heathland near Arnhem, he was a 18-year-old paratrooper dodging enemy fire...sixty years on he was back to commemorate the failed operation Market Garden, the largest airborne and glider operation in history.