Ramire Rosan
Ramire Rosan 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.
He received four medals, including, in 1996, the Légion d'honneur.
He died in Guadeloupe in 2004, at the age of 109.
