(1894-12-23)23 December 1894 Perugia, Umbria, Italy
Died
(2005-01-22)22 January 2005 (aged 110 years, 30 days) Garbatella, Rome, Lazio, Italy
Allegiance
Italy
Service/branch
Royal Italian Army
Years of service
1915–???
Unit
320th Infantry Regiment
Battles/wars
World War I
Awards
Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Other work
Mechanic
Carlo Orelli (23 December 1894 – 22 January 2005) was, at age 110, the last surviving Italian World War I veteran who joined the army at the onset of the war. Born in Perugia, although he lived in Rome for most of his life, Orelli came from a military family whose members had served in various Italian conflicts since 1849. A mechanic by trade, Orelli joined the Italian Army in May 1915 and engaged in combat operations in Italy. His recollections were marked by particularly brutal experiences of trench warfare, including the violent deaths of many of his friends. After receiving injuries to his leg, he was pulled from active duty and returned home.
After recovering from a related infection, Orelli married and had a family of six children. During World War II, despite his aversion to Nazi Germany and fascism, he was forced to work as an artillery director in Italy. At war's end, he returned to work as a mechanic, retiring in 1960. In his later years, he was active in urging others not to forget the lessons learned after the first World War, and in 2003 he was made a Grand Officer in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. He died in January 2005, a month after having turned 110 and achieving supercentenarian status. At the time of his death, he was Italy's oldest survivor of the First World War, the last remaining trench infantryman and the last survivor from Italy's entry into the war.
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Leone Ginzburg, and they had three children together, Carlo, Andrea, and Alessandra. Their son Carlo Ginzburg became a historian. Although Natalia Ginzburg...
Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6. Orelli, Giovanni. La Svizzera italiana, in Alberto Asor Rosa (ed.), Letteratura...
two of the three great feudal families of capitanei, the Muralto and the Orelli families, left the town and moved to Zürich. A branch of the Muraltos was...
newly-circumscribed genus. He named it after his teacher and friend Otto Schneider-Orelli. Kutter discovered the holotype himself; the species's type locality is...
1994 Lugano: racconto di ieri e di oggi, 1999 "Agliati, Mario". Giovanni Orelli, Svizzera Italiana, Editrice La Scuola, Brescia 1986. AA.VV., Dizionario...
Clemente Rebora, as well as the anti-Fascist Carlo Linati and the Italian-Swiss Francesco Chiesa and Giorgio Orelli. His other most significant works were in...
(Mondadori) 2002 Roberto Calasso: La letteratura e gli dei (Adelphi) Giorgio Orelli: Il collo dell'anitra (Garzanti) 2003 Michele Mari: Tutto il ferro della...
military connotation. A leading figure on the Visconti side was Simone Orelli da Locarno, whose military ability became legendary during the wars against...
Carlo Cassola (17 March 1917 – 29 January 1987) was an Italian novelist and essayist. His novel La Ragazza di Bube (1960), which received the Strega Prize...
1950 Perret found that the census worker could wrote O’Riley instead of Orelli or the name Fiori became Bloom Giorgio Cheda, L’emigrazione ticinese in...
region suffered from armies marching through the valley. A branch of the Orelli family of Locarno was given the castle above Biasca, near the chapel of...
a politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council 1969–1978 Giorgio Orelli (1921–2013), an Italian-speaking Swiss poet, writer and translator Fritz...
1999) was an Italian novelist and film critic. Born in Milan, the cousin of Carlo Emilio Gadda, he debuted as a novelist in 1924 with L' estusiastica estate...
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