Delfino Borroni

Delfino Borroni

Infobox Military Person
name= Delfino Borroni
born= birth date|1898|8|23


caption=
nickname=
placeofbirth= Turago Bordone (PV) - Italy
placeofdeath=
allegiance= flagicon|Italy Italy
branch= Italian Army
serviceyears= January 1917 – May 1920
rank=
unit= 6th Bersaglieri Bologna
commands=
battles= World War I
awards=
relations=
laterwork= Tram driver

Delfino Edmondo Borroni (born August 23, 1898) is, at age 110, Italy's oldest man, and the tenth-oldest verified man in the world. He is the last veteran of the Alpine Front in the First World War. This accolade followed the June 2008 death of the penultimate Italian Francesco Domenico Chiarello. The last Austro-Hungarian veteran Franz Künstler died in May 2008. There are two other trench veterans remaining. Englishman Harry Patch and Frenchman Fernand Goux fought on the Western Front.

Borroni signed up in January 1917 to the "6th Bersaglieri Bologna". He first saw action in the Pasubio Alpine massif, where he fought against the Austro-Hungarian forces. He also fought in Valsugana and at Caporetto, where, after suffering minor injuries, he was captured as an Austrian prisoner of war and was forced to dig trenches until he managed to flee towards the end of the war.

Seriously wounded as a civilian during World War II in an Allied air raid (he was a tramway driver), he now lives in a rest home in Castano Primo.

References

* [http://www.cimeetrincee.it/delfino.htm His biography] it icon
* [http://www3.varesenews.it/busto/articolo.php?id=12345 At age 106] it icon
* [http://www.delfinoborroni.com Official site] it icon

ee also

* Last surviving World War I veteran by country
* Surviving veterans of the First World War


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